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McKINLEY 



IN THE 



WITNESS BOX tlL 



BY 

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TO THE 

TOILING AND PRODUCING MASSES 

OF THE 

UNITED STATES. 




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As the Trusts would like to have him styled. 



NOTICE. 



The main requisite of publications pertaining to af- 
fairs of a political nature, is that the information be re- 
liable. 

The statements herein contained are made upon the 
highest authority, the greater portion being taken from 
the Records of the proceedings of the U. S. Senate and 
Congress and from Reports on file in Washington. 

The author desires to express his indebtedness to a 
large number of Senators, Congressmen, Officers and 
Sailors in the U. S. Navy, Officers and Privates in the 
U. S. Army, Officers of the Intelligence Bureaus of the 
Navy and War Departments of England and France, 
Governors and Officers of States and Newspapermen, 
who have contributed most cordially, signed statements, 
affidavits, statistics and other information that has been 
of very great service. 

C. R. MABEE, M. D. 

Cleveland, June, 1900. 



LIKE CLAY IN THE HANDS OF THE POTTER. 



SPECIAL ATTENTION. 



In 1896, M. A. Hanna, the multi-millionaire specu- 
lator of Cleveland, who was chairman of the National 
Republican Committee, and "business manager" of the 
Republican party, nominated and elected, William Mc- 
Kinley of Canton, Ohio, President of the United States 
at a cost to the Republican Committee of $16,385,040. 

While it would be unjust to slander the fair name of 
Marcus Aurelius Hanna, yet, the policy pursued by Mc- 
Kinley and his administration since its inauguration in 
office, has been so opposed to the interests of the toiling 
and producing masses, and in favor of the privileged 
classes, that the author was led to examine into the pres- 
ent status of affairs and also into the record of our (not 
war, but politically made) Major McKinley. 

The purpose of this book is therefore to place before 
those whose time will not permit them to enter the subject 
in detail the true position in which they have been placed 
by the three-year rule of a figurehead who is entirely 
controlled by influences that are a menace to the. future 
of our republic. 

Some may smile at this statement, but they are people 
who, not being capable of thinking for themselves, allow 
Tom Piatt, Mark Hanna, Russell Sage and others, to 
think for them. 

Here in a Christian country, a country dotted with 
school-houses and filled with churches, a country second 
to none in all the world, we find, at the close of the nine- 
teenth century, the Chief Executive participating in a 
Reign of Fraud and Conspiracy, and employing the same 
low and devilish tactics as were used by Louis Napoleon 
and Nero centuries ago. 

He and his administration have suppressed facts, 
censored dispatches, refused to enlighten the people, re- 



8 Mckinley in the witness box. 



fused Congress the right to be informed regarding the 
expenditure of money in Cuba, broken iron-clad contracts 
with citizens of other countries, made our Nation guilty 
of duplicity, refused to impart knowledge regarding the 
Philippines, suppressed the publication of the army death- 
roll, ignored the Declaration of Independence, the Monroe 
Doctrine and our Constitution, defied our highest tri- 




Hanxa— "Tear off That Ragged Corner, Mac." 



bunal, the Supreme Court, converted our Republic into 
an Empire, established Militarism and Imperialism, run 
our National expenses up to $10 per capita, per annum, 
furnished protection to trusts under the tariff to such an 
extent that the authorized issue of Industrial Trust Cer- 
tificates in one year, 1899, exceeded billion dollars, in- 
augurated a despotic rule over the Porto Ricans, forcibly 



SCANDAL AND EXPENSE. 



9 



annexed the Cubans, ordered American soldiers in the 
Philippines to shoot down the natives of those islands be- 
cause they ask for the same liberty that our fathers fought 
for one hundred and twenty- four years ago, declared war 
without the consent of Congress and loaned over fifty mil- 
lion dollars to banks without interest. 

All these conditions we see at the close of the nine- 
teenth century, are the very identical conditions that led to 
the downfall of Rome, Spain and of the man McKinley 
loves to boast he most resembles, Napoleon Bonaparte. 

I desire you to consider these conditions as they exist 
and from an unprejudiced standpoint. Do not allow your- 
self to be chloroformed by Republican newspapers or 
drugged by arguments manufactured by the favored class- 
es to enable them to press deeper into your brow the 
crown of thorns already placed there by the trusts. 

There is scarcely a manufactured article in general 
use that is not controlled by a trust of some kind. All 
these trusts apply to "Mark Hanna the "business manager'' 
of the "Republican party" for "Protection" and "Im- 
munity" in "evading the law." It is needless to say, that 
they get it. 

"Liberty," "Justice' and "self-government" are fast 
becoming things of the past. The "Leading Statesman" 
has already been replaced by the "Business Manager." 

Free trade between the Colonies and the States will 
follow the establishment of McKinley's Colonial Policy 
without much delay. Such has been the policy of Eng- 
land, wh ich he tries to imitate. 

The question before the country is this : — 

Shall the laboring and producing classes of America 
be subjected to a direct and never-ending competition with 
the underpaid and half-clad laborers of Asia, or shall the 
Republic of America be transformed into a colonial Em- 
pire with like consequences to the laboring classes ? 

This is the greatest question ever submitted to the 
American laboring man. A way of escape is before you. 
Will you accept it? Your future will be decided Nov. 
6th, 1900. 

I have traced McKinley from the time he first saw 
the light of day, to the present; from the rear end of a 



io Mckinley in the witness box. 



country store at Niles, Ohio, to the White House at 
Washington. I have followed him from Niles to Poland, 
from Poland to the battle fields of West Virginia, Virginia 
and Maryland and back to Poland, from Poland to Lorain, 
from Poland to Canton, from Canton to Columbus and 




President McKixeey Preparing his Message. 



from Canton to Washington and have found his life to 
be a great and grand Conglomeration of Inconsis- 
tencies dotted here and there with trickery, deceit, and 
prayer, and bordered with blunders, extravagance and hy- 
pocrisy. 

I have examined McKinley's war history from his 



McKlNLEY IN THE WITNESS BOX. n 



enlistment to his discharge, but I fail to agree with his 
paid biographer, Mr. Porter, on anything but minor points. 
His tariff history is nothing to his credit, while his war 
record is much less. To corroborate my statements the 
Republican party have but to refer to the Records of the 
Civil War and Sheridan's Memoirs. 




McKinxey — "Father, I cannot tell a lie ; I cut it 
with my little hatchet.' 1 



I have reviewed his political tactics (not principles) 
from a Canton ward heeler to an Imperial Huckster, but 
I fail to find one instance w 7 here he has ever been placed 
in office, that manufacturers and money interests were 
not at the bottom of it. His history shows that he has not 
only catered to this class but that he has solicited aid from 




THIS PIG WENT TO MARKET. 



INTIMIDATION. 



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them upon promises and propositions that were without 
exception detrimental to the interests of the masses. 

He appears before the classes with a countenance, 
scheduled as it were, with exorbitant duties, then turns 
to the masses with his face of tariff reform. 

After being clothed and fed by the taxpayers for 
twenty-one years, on the eve of his first nomination for 
President w T e find him a bankrupt, owing over $100,000. 
Who do we find coming to his Rescue? Myron T. Her- 
rick, President of the American Bankers' Association, col- 
lected this amount from moneyed interests and wiped out 
his indebtedness. Not able to save himself from bank- 
ruptcy and mortgaged by bankers; what can the Nation 
expect of such a man ? 

In order to place the present condition of affairs be- 
fore the common people in the most forcible manner I 
have chosen the allegorical form, by placing in the mouth 
of Uncle Sam questions that the American public desire 
to ask McKinley, and by placing in the mouth of Mc- 
Kinley replies that McKinley's history and the history of 
his administration would compel him to make in any court 
of Justice. Very truly yours, 

C. R. MABEE, M. D. 



WILLIE AND HIS PAPA. 




"If Willie is a gocx^boy, and minds papa and nursie, they will try to let 
him keep the pretty house until he is eight years old." 



TRUSTS AND COMBINES. 



*5 



McKINLEY IN THE WITNESS BOX. 



U. S. — Your name in full? 
McK.— Wm. McKinley. 
U. S. — Where do you reside? 
McK.— At Washington, D. C. 
U. S. — Where were you born? 
McK.— Niles, Ohio. 
U. S. — On what date. 
McK. — On Jan. 29th, 1843. 

U. S. — Were you born on a farm or in the village? 
McK —In the village. 
U. S. — What was your father's name? 
McK.— Wm. McKinley, Sr. 
U. S. — What was his occupation? 
McK. — He was foreman in an iron plant. 
U. S. — Your mother was a good woman, did you in- 
herit many of her good traits ? 
McK.— But very few. 

U. S. — Your father was noted for his stability; did 
you inherit much of this. 

McK. — Very little, if any. 

U. S. — How many brothers have you? 

McK.— One. 

U. S. — What is your brother's name? 
McK.— Abner McKinley. 
U. S. — Where does he live? 
McK.— In New York City. 

U. S. — Where did your parents move wlten thev left 
Niles? 

McK. — To Poland. 

U. S.— Where is Poland? 

McK. — Seven miles south of Youngstown, Ohio. 
U. S. : — Why did they move there? 
McK. — To give me an opportunity to attend the 
Poland Academy. 



16 McKINLEY IN THE WITNESS BOX. 



U. S. — Is this the Academy Mr. Porter talked so 
much about in his book extolling your magnificent career, 
which was published for the express purpose of further- 
ing your nomination and election as president of the 
United States. 

McK.— It is. 

U. S— How old were you when you joined that Po- 
land church ? 

McK. — Sixteen years. 

U. S. — Why did you join this church? 

McK. — Because people wanted me to join. 

U. S. — Had you received a change of heart, been born 
again, as they express it? 

McK.— No, Sir. 

U. S. — Did'nt you say you had when you applied for 
membership ? 

McK.— I did. 

U. S. — You just joined the church because people 
wanted you to do it? 
McK. — Yes, sir. 

U. S. — Are you a professing Christian to-day, and if 
so, what church has the honor of owning your member- 
ship? 

McK. — I am a professing Christian and belong to 
the M. E. Church at Canton, Ohio. 

U. S. — In other words, you are now and always have 
been a religious hypocrite? 

McK. — Yes, sir. 

U. S. — Where were you when the war broke out. 
McK.— At Poland. 

U. S. — What is the population of Poland. 
McK. — About 250. 

U. S. — What company was recruited from your town. 
McK.— Co. E. of the 23rd O. V. I. 
U. S. — Did you offer your services to your country at 
once? 

McK. — No, sir. 

U. S. — Is it not a fact that a great amount of pres- 
sure had to be brought to bear with you to get you to 
enlist at all and that you were the very last to enlist in 
this company? 



SCANDAL AND EXPENSE. 17 
McK.— It is. 

U. S.— Did you ever kill a Confederate? 
McK.— No. 

U. S. — Did you ever fire a gun in an engagement? 
McK.— No, sir. 

U. S. — Did you ever carry a gun in an engagement? 
McK.— No. 

U. S. — What did you do when you went to war. 
McK. — I was Company Cook. 

U. S. — What is the army phrase for Company Cooks. 




Where McKini^ey Decided to Enust. 



McK. — Soup Jacks. 

U. S. — Is it not a fact that Soup Jacks were a class 
of restless, troublesome people that were totally unfit for 
anything else ? 

McK. — As a rule. 

U. S. — Were you under the effect of liquor when you 
enlisted. 

McK. — No, sir. 

U. S. — Where did you make up your mind to enlist? 
McK. — In a tavern. 

U. S. — What was the name of the tavern? 
McK. — The Old Sparrow Tavern. 



is Mckinley in the witness box. 



U. S. — Did they sell whiskey there? 
McK.— Yes, sir. 

U. S. — Is it not a fact that as an inducement to get 
you to enlist, the members of your Co. told you they would 
have you appointed cook so that you could be in "the rear 
and out of the range of bullets? 

McK. — Yes, sir. 

U. S. — What date was it that they took you into the 
bar-room and had you enlist ? 
McK. — June nth, 1861. 




McKini^ey was his Company's Cook. 



U. S. — Why was it that you broke down and carried 
on like a baby when you left for the front, when you 
knew you would not be exposed to the hardships and risks 
as would your companions? 

McK. — I was afraid I would never return. 

U. S. — Where were you on the 17th of September, 
1*862, which was the bloodiest day in the annals of the 
civil war? 

McK.— At the battle of Antietam. 

U. S. — Were you still a cook? 

McK.— Yes, sir. 



FRAUD AND CONSPIRACY. 



19 



U. S. — How far in the rear of the army did you have 
your cooking establishment during this battle? 
McK. — Three miles. 
U. S. — When did the battle commence? 
McK.— At dawn. 

U. S. — Did your company have any breakfast? 
McK.— No, sir. 

U. S. — Did you have your breakfast? 
McK. — Yes, sir. 

U. S. — Did your company have any dinner? 
McK.— No, sir. 

U. S." — Did you have your dinner? 
McK.— Yes, sir. 

U. S. — Did your company have any supper? 
McK.— No, sir. 

U. S. — Did vou have your supper? 
McK.— Yes,'sir. 

U. S. — You always provided for yourself first? 
McK.— I did. 

U. S. — Why was it that when you knew 7 the soldiers 
had a hard morning's fight on empty stomachs that you 
did not take them coffee and meat at noon ? 

McK. — I had the camp so far in the rear of the bat- 
tle that a lunch could not be carried to them. 

U. S. — Why did you set your cooking camp so far in 
the rear ? 

McK. — Because I desired the provisions to be out 
of danger. 

U. S— When did you finally furnish the boys with a 
lunch ? 

McK. — At sundown. 

U. S. — Is this part of your great war record? 
McK. — Yes, sir, I suppose it is. 
U. S. — What did you do in the latter part of 1862 ? 
McK. — I drove army mules in Maryland. 
U. S. — How many times were you under fire during 
the war? 

McK. — Twice. 

U. S. — At Antietam and where else? 
McK. — At the battle of Winchester, Va. 



2o McKINLEY IN THE WITNESS BOX. 



The Anglo-Saxon Wars. 



AMERICAN. BRITISH. 

Troops in field 60,000 240,000 

Money expended. ..$250,000,000 $300,000,000 

If McKinley wants to imitate England, 
why was it he did not go about his war in an 
economical business-like way? 

The English fought a stronger enemy, 
better equipped and better trained than the 
Filippinos. 

The English had three disadvantages that 
the Americans did not have. 

1st. Their base of supplies was 900 miles 
distant. 

2nd. They fought an inland enemy. 

3rd. The African fighting grounds covered 
twice as much territory as the entire island of 
Luzon. 

The British-Boer war was practically closed 
in eight months. The Philippine war has lasted 
twenty-six months. There are more troops in 
the Philippines now than on any previous oc- 
casion, and General Mc Arthur is still sending 
for more. 

This statement is unassailable, and shows 
that the Philippine war is either one of blunders 
or one waged solely for plunder and pillage. 



HYPOCRISY AND INCONSISTENCY. 21 



U. S. — In what capacity were you acting at this 
battle ? 

McK.— I was a messenger. 

U. S. — Why was it you did not continue your position 
as Company Cook? 

McK. — Because I was accused by my comrades of 
selling portions of the commissary supplies and pocketing 
the money. 

U. S. — Well, isn't it a fact that you did do this, not 
on one occasion but whereever and whenever you got an 
opportunity ? 




Mckinley Driving Army Mui,es in Maryland. 



McK.— It is. 

U. S. — When you saw that the rebels were getting 
the best of the Northern army at Winchester why did you 
go to the chaplain and sav, "Let's get out of here or we 
will be killed?" 

McK. — I did not ask the chaplain to go with me, I 
went alone ? 

U. S. — But General Sheridan says on page 82 of his 
memoirs that while he was riding to Winchester to rally 
his men, he met you a>nd the chaplain seven miles in the 
rear of the army running to beat h — in the opposite direc- 
tion. 



22 McKINLEY IN THE WITNESS BOX. 



McK. — I remember meeting Sheridan, but I did not 
think it would be possible for him to rally the soldiers 
and turn defeat into victory as he did. 

U. S. — Sheridan said the minister was a better rider 
than yourself and that you were a short distance behind 
him. 

McK. — That is true. I followed him up. 

U.S. — Was it not your "plain duty" to have remained 
at the front with your command and to have stood by 
your commanding general instead of deserting your com- 




McKinley's Fught at Winchester. 



rades and your country in the very hour at which you 
were most needed. 
McK. — It was. 

U. S. — When you saw the first flash from Gen. 
Early's cannons at Cedar Creek, what did you do ? 
McK. — I retired to the rear. 

U. S— Is it not a fact that Porter's 1896 campaign 
sketch of your war record is nothing but a series of lies 
told to him by yourself ?* 

McK. — I compiled the statements myself for Mr. 
Porter. 



INTIMIDATION. 



2 3 



U. S. — How much did Mr. Porter get for publishing 
your false statements ? 
McK.— $5,000.00. 
U. S. — Who paid it to him. 
McK.— Mark Hanna. 
U. S. — What else did he get. 

McK. — He got a government position shortly after 
I was inaugurated as President. 

U. S. — Yourself and Mr. Hanna then, both paid this 
Republican Journalist for humbugging the public and 
hiding your true record from the public ? 

McK. — Yes, sir. 

U. S. — You pose as a hero in war? 
McK. — Yes, sir. 
U. S. — As a patriot in peace? 
McK. — Yes, sir. 

U. S. — As a Christian in church? 
McK. — Yes, sir. 

U. S. — They call you Major. Were you promoted 
from Company Cook to be a Major for gallant services. 
McK.— No. 

U. S. — Does the records of the civil war show that 
you were a Major at the close of the war. 
McK.— No, sir. 

U. S. — Why and when were you promoted to Major? 

McK. — I was promoted to Major after the war for 
political purposes. 

U. S. — Who did you marry? 

McK. — Ida Saxton, daughter of Banker Saxton. 

U. S. — Did you have any property, mortgages or val- 
uable stocks when you were married? 

McK.— No, sir. 

U. S. — Where did you move when you left Poland. 

McK. — To Canton, Ohio. 

U. S. — What did you do in Canton? 

McK. — Studied lav/. 




McKiNi/EY Graft. 



FRAUD AND CONSPIRACY. 



U. S. — Did you ever try a law suit in your life out- 
side of the Justice Court without help. 
McK. — No, sir. 




News Item. - "McKinley has Been Made Doctor of Law." 
Canton Dispatch. " He Only Won Two Law Suits 
in His Life." 



U. S. — Did you ever make one dollar out of law in 
your entire career more than was necessary to keep you? 
McK. — No, sir. 



26 Mckinley in the witness box. 



U. S. — What was the first political office you ever 
ran for? 

McK. — I was elected district attorney of Stark Co., 
O., by a small majority. 

U. S. — When you came up for re-election isn't it a 
fact that the people were so disgusted with your crooked 
legal proceedings that even a large number of sober- 
minded Republicans turned you down and assisted in the 
election of a Democrat? 

McK, — I was defeated for re-election. 

U. S. — What reason have you to offer for your defeat 
for re-election to Congress ? 

McK. — The same causes that defeated me for district 
attorney. 

U. S. — How many years have the citizens of the U. S. 
clothed you and fed you ? 

McK. — Twenty-four years. 

U. S. — While in Congress you confidentially told a 
friend of yours when he asked you to subscribe to the cam- 
paign fund that you had only received three rake-offs dur- 
ing the last session and that two of them were small. 
Now, were these solicited by you or offered to you ? 

McK. — They were solicited by me. 

U. S. — In what business or profession are you en- 
gaged in at the present time? 

McK. — I am following my profession which is poli- 
tics. 

U. S. — What political office do you hold? 

McK. — I am President of the United States and 
Commander-in-Chief of the Naval and Military forces 
thereof. 

U. S. — How long have you been in this profession? 
McK. — For twenty-six years. 

U. S. — You are no doubt quite an experienced poli- 
tician ? 

McK. — I am, sir. 

U. S. — Being a politician of vast experience I sup- 



MONOPOLIES AND FRANCHISES. 27 



pose that like others, your duties are to look after your- 
self and friends first. 

McK. — Yes, sir. 

U. S. — Who are your friends? 

McK. — The parties through whose influence I was 
elected. 

U. S.— To whose credit have you posted your election? 
McK. — I was elected President of the United States 
by men who, since my election have been very prominently 




A Victim of the Hide and Leather Trust. 

connected with the iron, copper, cotton, chemical, steel, 
axe, tool, sugar, telephone, bicycle, car, foundry, cement, 
cotton oil, nut, electric, felt, glue, hide leather, ice, jute, 
last, linseed, lithograph, malting, gun, projectile, pastry, 
radiator, stove, school furniture, sewer pipe, ship-building, 
silk, smelting, refining, wire, hook, straw board, thread, 
tin plate, tobacco, type-founders, window glass, woolen, 
wringing, paper, asphalt, snufif, brick, fish, oyster, borax, 
brass, billiard table, fruit, coke, steamboat, brewing, beef, 



28 McKINLEY IN THE WITNESS BOX. 



WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN 

Holds that all men are created equal ; that they 
are endowed by their Creator with certain un- 
alienable rights ; that among these are life, 
liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That, to 
secure these rights, governments are instituted 
among men, deriving their just powers from the 
consent of the governed. 



WILLIAM McKINLEY 

Holds that all men are not created equal ; that 
they were not endowed by their Creator with 
unalienable rights such as life, liberty and the 
pursuit of happiness, and that governments do 
not derive their just powers from the consent of 
the governed. 

If the Re-publicans deny this statement 
remind them, that actions speak louder than 
words, and refer them to the sale of Porto Rico 
to the Sugar and Tobacco Trusts, to the sale of 
Cuba to Van Horne, Morgan, Sage and others, 
to the sale of the Philippines to Legarda, 
Palanca and Carman, and then ask them to 
refer you to the date of the last elections in 
these islands. 



DECEPTION AND NEGLECT. 



milk, car-brake, water power, rubber tire, match, storage 
battery, vehicle, telegraph, aristo, towing, cigar, safe, fibre, 
automobile, car wheel, elevator, steam pump, kodack, 
dredge, glass, smokeless powder, woodenware, biscuit, 
carbon, cash register, enameling, lead, salt, saw, screw, 
shear, starch, tube, wall paper, cotton-yarn, flour, laundry, 
plate glass, baking powder, rope and twine, pottery, paper- 
box, typewriter, gas, zinc, cast iron, bobbin and shuttle, 
envelope, varnish, marble, air-brake, underwear, ore, belt, 
broom, coffee, raisin, shingle, lumber, threshing-machine, 
oil cloth, shovel, soap, eaves trough, drug, playing card, 
beer, whiskey, coffin, dynamite, and about 2,000 other 
trusts. 

U. S. — Who aided you most in your election? 

McK. — The combines and corporations. 

U. S. — What salary does your position pay? 

McK. — $50,000.00 per year and household expenses. 

U. S. — What is your manager's name? 

McK. — M. A. Hanna. 

U. S. — Your manager is undoubtedly entitled to a 
very large salary, how much do you pay him ? 
McK. — Nothing. 

U. S. — Does he pay anything for the privilege of 
managing you ? 

McK.— No, sir. 

U. S. — Mr. Hanna being a multi-millionaire, how 
can he afford to act as your manager without remunera- 
tion ? 

McK.— He cannot. 

U. S. — Does Mark get his renumeration here, or 
is he expecting it in the next world ? 
McK.— He gets it here. 

U. S. — Have you and your manager had a settlement 
since March 4, 1897? 



o£ McKINLEY IN THE WITNESS BOX. 
McK.— No, sir. 

U. S. — When you got up die McKinley bill where 
did you get your matter ? 




Manager and Trainer. 



McK.— From Mills of Texas. 

U. S. — What important changes did you make in the 
Mills bill that would warrant the honor of its framing 
to go to you ? 

McK. — None whatever ; but two clauses of note were 
changed, the other changes were merely increases in duty. 



TRUSTS AND COMBINES. 31 

U. S!-r-You stole supposed honor in this case? 

McK.— Supposed honor is money in politics, and in 
this case it elevated me from a practically unrecognized 
congressman to one of national repute. 

U. S. — Mr. Foran's claim, then, that you were a 




BEGINNINGIO Dtf BUSINESS 



minor affair until you concocted the plan of - stealing the 
Mills Bill is true? 
McK.— Yes, sir. 

U. S. — It is claimed in Washington that the money 
you received from the passage of the McKinley Bill is the 



32 Mckinley in the witness box. 



only money that was ever paid to you direct for your vote 
and influence, except when you were Governor of Ohio 
Is that true ? 

McK. — It is. 

U. S. — How many times has the Pennsylvania Rail- 
road furnished you with special trains and special cars to 
make your trips to Canton ? 

McK. — Five times. 

U. S. — Is it not a fact that the Pennsylvania Railroad 
has not charged you one cent for transportation since 
March 4th, 1897? 

McK.— It is. 

U. S. — The Penn Route is over 100 miles longer than 
the B. & O. and its connections from Washington to Can- 
ton. Why don't you travel by the Baltimore & Ohio? 

McK. — Because the Pennsylvania system is under 
obligations to me. I ordered Secretary Alger and later 
on Secretary Root to ship all army supplies and troops 
bound and returning from the Philippines by that route 
on the pretext that the Penn would save time and to pay 
a little higher rate to them than other lines had offered. 

U. S. — Is this the only obligation? 

McK. — No, sir. The Pennsylvania Railroad was 
paid a large sum to carry visitors, as Hanna called them, 
to Canton to visit me in the fall of '96. 

U. S. — Is it not a fact that in order to get even with 
you for your favoritism to the Penn, the B. & O., which is 
its main competitor, placed the finest special train that 
ever pulled out of Washington at the disposal of Admiral 
Dewey ? 

McK.— It is. 

U. S. — Does Hanna ever pay any railroad fare or 
charges for special cars? 
McK. — No, sir. 

U. S. — How does he usually ride? 
McK. — He has passes on all lines. 



CORPORATIONS AND SYNDICATES. 33 



U. S. — Does the law allow U. S. officials to dabble in 
State politics ? 

McK. — No, sir. 

U. S. — When you were appealed to by the citizens of 
Michigan why was it, then, that you did not enforce this 
law and pull the Michigan federal officeholders out of the 
Pingree taxation fight at Lansing, Michigan ? 

McK. — Because Pingree wanted to make the rail- 
road, express, telephone and telegraph companies pay 
about $2,500,000 worth of taxes that the farmers and la- 
borers have always been paying for them, and Senators 
Burrows and McMillan had a deal on by which I was to 
do nothing to aid Pingree and the common people, and 
everything possible to aid the corporations. 

U. S. — What is the difference between Pingree and 
Senator McMillan? 

McK. — Pingree is a statesman and McMillan a poli- 
tician. . 

U. S. — Wherein does a statesman and politician 
differ? 

McK. — A statesman works for his country, while a 
politician expects his country to do something for him. 

U. S. — How about Hanna, Piatt, Dick, Gage and 
the rest of your clique, including yourself — are they 
politicians or statesmen ? 

McK. — Politicians. 

U. S. — Pingree's taxation bill was defeated? | 
McK. — Yes, sir. 

U. S. — By the influence of the federal officeholders? 
McK. — Yes, sir. 

U. S. — If you had done your "Plain Duty" by with- 
drawing federal opposition to Pingree's Bill, you would 
have forced the corporations to pay their just taxes and 
have saved the farmers, laborers and common people of 
Michigan from paying $2,500,000 of taxes which they do 
not owe ? 

McK. — Yes, sir. 



34 McKINLEY IN THE WITNESS BOX. 

IX S. — Has Senator McMillan any interest in Michi- 
gan telephones? 

McK. — Yes, sir: he is president of the Michigan 
Bell Co. 




The Commencement at Philadelphia. 



U. S. — Has Senator Piatt any interests in any of 
these companies Pingree desired to be made to pay their 
proper share of tfee taxes ? 

McK. — Yes, sir; Piatt is president of the U. S. Ex- 
press Co. 

U. S. — Has Senator Depew any Michigan interests 
that would have been affected by Pingree's Bill ? 

McK. — Yes, sir. He is interested in the Michigan 



MILLIONAIRES AND MONEY GODS. 35 



Central and Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railroads 
and also in the Western Union Telegraph Co. 

U. S. — To come right down to facts, was it not the 
influence of these three U. S. Senators that prevented you 
from doing your "Plain Duty" toward the common people 
of Michigan and indirectly toward every farmer and me- 
chanic in the United States ? 

McK.— It was. 

U. S. — If Pingree's Bill had passed what would have 
been the result ? 

McK. — Every state in the union would have passed 
laws making these and similar corporations pay their 
taxes. 

U. S. — How much money would this have placed in 
the hands of the common people, to which it properly 
belongs ? 

McK. — About $60,000,000.00 per year. 

U. S. — And you are the one and the only one to 
blame for this system of robbery which in the course of 
a few years will run into thousands of millions of dollars ? 

McK. — I was placed here by these people and what 
could I (do ? 

U. S. — By what political crooks were you nominated 
and elected governor of Ohio? 

McK. — By machine politics amd by promising thou- 
sands of people offices if they would spend their time and 
money in my interests. 

U. S. — Is it not a fact that even your personal friends 
adnjit that in #11 the history of Ohio there never w r as a 
candidate for governor who promised so many positions 
in exchange for influence? 

McK.— It is. 

U. S. — You promised to make one man superintend- 
ent of a state institution and after he had been to see you 
four or five times, and you had put him off each time, 
what did you tell him one afternoon at 4 o'clock? 

McK. — I told him not to get nervous, to go home and 



MONOPOLIES AND FRANCHISES. 37 



rest perfectly contented, for it would only be a few days 
until I would appoint him. 

U. S. — Did he go home satisfied that he would get 
the appointment, and that you would be a man of your 
word and appoint him ? 

McK.— He did. 

U. S. — What did your faithful friend read in his 
paper the next morning? 

McK. — He read that I had appointed another man. 

U. S. — Had you appointed the other man before the 
gentleman called? 

McK.— Yes, sir. 

U. S. — -Why did you lie to him? 

McK.— To get rid of him, like I did to a hundred 
others. 

U. S. — Did you get rid of him? 

McK. — No, he came back the next day. 

U. S. — What did he say when he came back? 

McK. — He walked into my office without any 
ceremony, talked loud enough to be heard in Cincinnati, 

called me a dirty liar and a and 

everything else he could lay his tongue to, made my type- 
writer so nervous she hasn't got over it yet, and dum- 
founded a newspaper reporter who had been in the service 
for twenty years. 

U. S.< — Did you order him out of your office? 

McK.— No, sir. 

U. S.— What did you say to him? 

McK.— Nothing. 

U. S.— What did you do? 

McK. — I just sat there and took it. 

U. S. — What did vou say to yourself? 

McK.— My . 

U. S. — What did you do when he went out? 
McK. — Took a long breath. 
U. S. — Then what did you do? 

McK.— I turned to the reporter and said ' 'there is 
some satisfaction in knowing that you represent a staunch 
Republican paper." 

U. S. — What did you say to your stenographer when 
the reporter left and you were alone with her ? 



38 McKINLEY IN THE WITNESS BOX. 



McK. — I told her I had about fifty more like him on 
my staff and asked her if she could not invent some way 
of getting rid of them other than this route. 

U. S. — What did she say? 

McK. — "Do unto others as you would others would 
do unto you." 

U. S. — Did you follow her advice? 
McK.— No, sir. 
U. S.— Why? 




Littie Pi,ank, Big Puff. 

McK. — I did not want to go back to Canton and 
starve to death trying to practice law. 

U. S. — But she gave you good advice. She quoted 
one of the Commandments. 

McK. — The Commandments are not the same now 
as they used to be. Mark Hanna and I got at them and 
gave them a general overhauling. 



HYPOCRISY AND INCONSISTENCY. 39 



U. S. — What kind of a scheme was entered into be- 
tween yourself, Hanna and Otis on the one side and G. 
W. Carman of San Francisco and A. Palanca of Manila 
on the other side ? 

McK. — We sold Carman and Palanca the sole right 
to store goods in bond, and every article which goes into 
the custom house at Manila in bond must go into their 
warehouse and be subject to such charges as they see fit 
to impose. 

U. S. — What other devilish scheme did you enter 
into with these scoundrels? 

McK. — We sold them the exclusive right to transfer 
passengers and baggage ashore from steamers. 

U. S. — Under what name is this transfer business 
conducted ? 

McK. — The Travellers' Transfer Company. 

U. S. — What are their rates? 

McK. — One dollar for each person and for each piece 
of baggage. 

U. S. — One dollar for a grip? 
McK. — Yes, sir. 

U. S. — What other privileges did you grant them? 

McK. — We gave them the privilege to send their 
drummers out to the ships with the customs guard and to 
tell the passengers that there is no other way by which 
they can get ashore. 

U. S. — Who issued the military order that all pas- 
sengers and baggage must go ashore in the launches of 
this company? 

McK. — General Otis. 

U. S. — Under what pretext was this order issued? 

McK. — That if the landing was done by this com- 
pany there would be less danger of smuggling in insur- 
rectos and Chinamen. 

U. S. — The transportation lines doing business in all 
tropical ports without exception place their own launches 
at the disposal of their passengers who desire to make a 
landing, which is nothing but just and right. Why is it 
that when an American buys a ticket from 'Frisco to 
Manila that you do not compel the companies to land him 
and his baggage at Manila instead of throwing him off 



40 McKINLEY IN THE WITNESS BOX. 




My instructions are to let 
nothing go that will injure the 
McKiiiley Administration or 
comfort the enemy. 

Colonel Thompson, 
Cafole Censor, Manilla. 



White House, Feb. 3rd. 
Mark Hanna, 

Cleveland. 
Dear Mark: 

Su^ar trust demands me to 
surrender. Will cost the peo- 
ple S 2, 09 q, 000. What will I 
do. Answer at once. 

Yours truly, 

Wm. McKinlev. 



TOTAL CASUALTIES IN THE PHILIPPINES 
TO JUNE 15, 1900. 



Killed 1,683 

Died of wounds 1,801 

Died of disease , 2,722 

Wounded: 2,428 

Total 8,634 



Despite the bland optimism of Generals Otis 
and Schwan, all reports from the front show 
that there has been no substantial abatement in 
the resistance of the natives. 



TREACHERY. 



41 



into money grabbers' launches, two miles out in the bay ? 

McK— I could do nothing. Hanna had the plans 
all laid before I was notified regarding it. 

U s.— How about the charges of favoritism and 




Wiuje and His Papa. 



4 'What have you got those funny clothes on for, Papa ?" 
* 'I'm getting ready to pose as the Workingman's Friend during 
the campaign, Willie." 



4 2 McKINLEY IN THE WITNESS BOX. 

corruption against' the custom officials and also against 
certain minor officials in the quartermaster's department? 
McK. — They are very strong. 

U. S. — Do the enlisted men who act as police in Ma- 
nila get any percentage of the rake-offs from gambling 
and disorderly houses ? 

McK. — Yes, sir. 

U. S. — How do you know this? 

McK. — Because they complain that their percentage 
is too small. 

U. S. — What is their percentage? 

McK. — It was 1 6 per cent, but now it is 20. 

U. S. — Who gets the balance? 

McK. — The higher officers. 

U. S. — What nationality was Otis' friend, Legarda? 




Our Chief Executive in his Private Office. 
McK.— A Tino. 

U. S. — What nationality is Palanca? 
McK. — He is a Chinaman. 

U. S. — Why was it that when the lake (Laguna de 



BLUNDERS AND EXTRAVAGANCE. 43 



Bay) country was in the hands of the insurgents that the 
guards were instructed that only Carman's, Palanca's and 
Legarda's cargoes should be allowed to pass up the river? 

McK. — These men were given a special privilege to 
trade while others could not. Otis was no saint. 

U. S. — Who is the richest man in Manila? 

McK. — Legarda. 

U. S. — What was he formerly? 

McK. — A Filipino sympathizer. 

U. S.— Was not the trust which Gen. Otis placed in 
Legarda a matter of general regret to the army ? 

McK. — It was. Legarda seemed to stand well with 
Otis and the insurgent leaders both at the same time. 
Otis always allowed him to pass back and forward be- 
tween the American and insurgent lines when the same 
privilege was denied to others. 

U. S. — When a ship arrives in Manila bay, explain 
what takes place. 

McK. — A custom guard of soldiers is sent aboard 
her at once. Their duty is to see that no arms, ammuni- 
tion, Chinamen or insurgents get ashore. The soldiers 
occupy a cabin and the ship feeds them and they expect 
at the same time to be given all the drinks they desire. 
When the ship weighs anchor to leave the port they go to 
the agent of the steamer in Manila and demand a bonus 
of $5.00 per day for the time they spent aboard drinking 
the company's whisky. If the agent refuses to be thus 
blackmailed the guard gets even with him by insisting 
that they want certain packages as they go over the sides 
examined for contraband of war, thus delaying the un- 
loading of ships whose time is valuable to their owners^ 

U. S. — Who conducts the railroads in the Philip- 
pines ? 

McK. — The army. 

U. S. — So the army has gone into the railroad busi- 
ness? 

McK.— Yes, sir. 

U. S. — How are they getting along? 
McK. — Pretty well, from the the officers' standpoint. 
How many trains are running a day on the main line ? 
McK. — One train each way. 



44 McKINLEY IN THE WITNESS BOX. 



How long will our 
Republic live 

Total assessmentof pro- 
perty real ft- personal irvthe 
United States Dec. 1899. 
»25.000,0OO,000,OO. Tofol debts 
of Nation *4a000,000.000,00. 



STORY IN FIGURES. 

The ordinary annual expenditures of the Government 
averaged in President Harrison's term $361,291,323. 

Thev averaged in President Cleveland's second term 
|360,418,546. 

They have averaged in President McKinley's term $514,- 
480,254. 

The cost of running the Government is thus seen to have 
been increased by nearly $154,000,000 a year ever since 
Mr. McKinley was inaugurated. And this is not accounted 
for by the extraordinary disbursements of the war, which 
are not included in these ''ordinary expenditures." 

The outlay for war is a separate matter, and it accounts 
in the increase of the public debt by $200,000,000 since Mr. 
McKinley's inauguration. 

The financial record of the Administration may there- 
fore be summed up in a sentence. It has added nearly 1 3,- 
000,000 a month to the regular running expenses of the 
Government and added $1.70 per capita to the National 
burden of debt. 

Corrupt men have had ample opportunity in the Philip- 
pines. Greater if anything, than those offered in Cuba. 
The distance from Washington has so far lent immunity, 
but sooner or later the fact will be discovered. 

Colonialism leads to corruption, and the expose in Cuba 
is but a preliminary showing when compared to the torna- 
do of dishonesty which will be in evidence when all the 
facts are made known. 



STEALING AND LAW BREAKING. 



45 



U. S. — What is the name of the main line? 
McK.— The Malolos Valley. 

U. S. — How much of the rolling stock on this line 
was destroyed ? 

McK. — About 80 per cent. 

U. S. — How long has this road been running since it 
was reorganized by the soldiers? 
McK. — About two months? 

U. S. — If you were a farmer over in the Malolos Val- 




HARDWABI. 




A Victim of the Steei, and Wire Trust. 



ley and wanted to get your rice to market, how would you 
go about to do it? 

McK. — I would "tip" the sergeant, for otherwise my 
rica would remain at the depot till it sprouted. 

U. S. — Why would you have to tip the sergeant? 

McK. — Because with only one train a day and the 
warehouses blocked up with freight, what show would I 
have to get my rice out unless I tipped him ? 



46 McKINLEY IX THE WITNESS BOX. 





Lfacfe Sam— And your reign is drawing to a close* 

ROME AND SPAIX, FKI^L 

Are we not following in their foot-steps ? 

Like ancient Kings and Rulers McKinley has sup- 
pressed facts. He has censored dispatches. He has 
refused to enlighten the people. He refused con- 
d gress the right to be informed on the expenditures 
I of money in Cuba. He refused to impart knowledge 
^ regarding the Philippines. His legislation has been 
r against the masses and in favor of the classes. 

^ HIGH TAXATION. ENORMOUS EXPENDITURES. IMPERIALISM. MILITARISM. A 



TYRANNY AND BARBARISM. 



47 



U. S. — How many provinces are there in the Island 
of Luzon ? 

McK. — Twenty-six. 

U. S. — In how many of these have the insurgents 
been subdued? 

McK. — In two provinces. 
U. S — What are these? 
McK. — Cavite and Bataan. 

U. S. — What have you done in the other twenty-four 
provinces ? 

McK. — We have soldiers at Vigan in Ilocos Sur, at 
S. Fernando in La Union, at Lingayen in Pangasinan, 
at Iba in Zambales, at Balayan in Batangas, at Batangas 
in Batangas, arid at inland towns like Tarlac, S. Isidor, 
Bocolor, Maloca and Morong. 

U. S. — Vigan, S. Fernando, Lingayen, Iba, Balayan 
and Batangas are seaport towns on the coast and offer 
special opportunities for plunder by custom officials. Is 
this the reason wky Otis garrisoned these points ? 

McK. — They were garrisoned because of the custom 
receipts. 

U. S. — Did Otis sell landing and warehouse privi- 
leges in these ports the same as he did in the port of 
Manila ? 

McK.— He did. 

U. S. — Have you made any progress in subduing 
the rebels (as you call them) in the provinces of North 
Ilocas, Bangnet, Cagayan, Isabela, Bontoc, Lepanto, 
Benguet, Nueva Vizcaya and Principe in the north and 
Albany, Camarines Sur, (^marines North and Tayabas 
in the southern portion of Luzon. 

McK. — None whatever. We hav^ not enough sol- 
diers to cover more tham four or five provinces. 

U. S. — Why don't you ask for more? 

McK. — Because it would injure the second-term 
scheme. 

U. S. — i\fter election what do you propose to do, 
provided you are re-elected. 

McK. — We will send over 50,000 additional troops 
in small installments so that it will not be noted so promi- 
nently and all the provinces w r ill be entered, and the sea- 



48 McKINLEY IN THE WITNESS BOX. 



ports held even if we are unable to hold the inland ter- 
ritory. 

U. S. — What plan has Hanna drawn up for the dis- 
position of the islands ? 




Why is Long 
the Secretary of the Navy? 

Because he gave Cousin Osborn, 
of Poland, the police Commission- 
ership of Boston, where he did not 
- belong. 




McK. — Active measures will be commenced in the 
other islands in the spring. 

U. S. — What are the names of the principle islands 
where no active measures have been commenced as yet ? 

McK. — Negros, Zebu, Panay, Bohol, Leyte, Minda- 
nao, Basilan, Mesbate, Samar, Cananduanes, Tarlas, Min- 
doro, Sibuyan, Polillo, Calamian, Busuanga and Palawan. 

U. S. — What method will you set on foot to plunder 
these islands ? 

McK. — They all have one principal port and with 
more soldiers we will be able to send a warship to each 
port and garrison them the same as the ports of Vigan 
and Iba. 

U. S. — Soldiers returning from the Philippines state 
that no pretense is made at all to check the insurgents and 
that the American troops will merely run out into the 
country 50 or 100 miles from the railroad track and shoot 
a few natives and then return for the officers to report an 
engagement which is immediately wired over here by the 
Governor General as a decisive battle? 



PILLAGE AND PLUNDER. 



49 



McK. — As we are handicapped by public opinion we 
are forced to make the surface look smooth. 

U. S. — How long do you think it will take to estab- 
lish peace and quietness in the islands? 

McK. — That condition will never exist as long as the 
islands remain in the possession of a foreign power. 

U. S.— Then why do you not withdraw the troops? 

McK. — It would ruin the party. 

U. S. — Does slavery exist in the Hawaii Islands? 

McK.— Yes, sir. 

U. S. — Who owns these islands? 
McK.— The United States. 

U. S. — Is human flesh bought and sold on American 
soil? 

McK.— Yes, sir. 

U. S. — And under a Republican administration 
which has pointed with such honor to the action of its 
predecessor (in the '6o's) which emancipated the slaves 
and championed the colored cause at a cost of 400,000 
lives ? 

McK.— Yes, sir. 

U. S. — How did these islands become American soil? 
McK. — By annexation. 
U. S. — When was this? 

McK.— In 1898. I 
U. S. — Under your administration? 
McK. — Yes, sir. 

U. S. — And with you knowing at the time that slav- 
ery existed there? 
McK. — Yes, sir. 

U. S. — What have you done in the last two years to 
eradicate this unjust franchise for dealing in human 
flesh? 

McK. — Nothing whatever. 

U. S. — How are the slaves sold in Hawaii? 



50 McKINLEY IN THE WITNESS BOX. 



AGUINALDO IN MANILA! 

WHILE OTIS SCOURED ILOCUS, La UNION, ZAM- 
BALES AND OTHER NORTHERN PRO- 
VINCES IN PURSUIT OF HIM. 

A Hongkong merchant, who is financially interested in the 
Filipinos and who was with Aguinaldo during the gre iter part 
of his stay in Manila from February 10th until March 17th 
claims thac Aguinaldo has out witted General Otis a dozen times. 

Imagine, he says Aguinaldo passing the capital at Man ia 
from six to eight times a day, while General Otis inside was dic- 
tating messages and drawing up plans for his capture in Ilocos, 
La Union and Zambales and sending messages to Washington 
advising McKinley as to his whereabouts. He stated also that 
the reports current in Paris and Berlin that money was being 
collected and troops recruited within the city limits of Manila 
were true and that the idea was almost universal among the 
business men of Manila that Otis had received instructions from 
Washiagton to delay bringing the war to a close in order that if 
McKinlev is re-elected his administration will profit by the pro- 
longation of the same. 

This view is also shared by soldiers returning from the Is- 
lands and in view of the fact that England has met an inland 
enemy. 900 miles from her base of supplies, ten times as strong 
and far better equipped than the Insurgents and practically 
drove them out of existence in eight months while in twenty-four 
months, Merritt, Anderson and Otis have practically done noth- 
ing, the same views are now being shared by thousands of the 
best thitiVinsr people in America 




Cenerae Otis Auctioneering Franchises to American 
Capitalists at Manila 



BROKEN PLEDGES AND DEGENERATION. 51 




They Were Made our Equai^s on the Shores of the 
Lake of Gaui.ee. 



McK. — To the highest bidder. 

U. S. — What is the evidence of ownership? 

McK. — Receipts with a description of the colored 
man attached, giving his height, weight, measurements 
and the mark of the former owner. 

U. S. — Are slaves considered personal property in 
Hawaii ? 

McK. — Just as much so as a horse in W ashington. 

U. S. — Do you not know that the Sep of God pro- 
claimed on the shores of the Lake of Galilee that in His 
Father's sight all men were created equal ? 

McK.— I have read that passage. 

U. S. — Well, why don't you act on it? 

McK. — Because it would injure the interests of the 
sugar trust which subscribed $1,000,000.00 to my election 
in 1896 and who have subscribed $2,000,000.00 to my re- 
election this fall. 

U. S. — In what other portions of the United States 
does slavery exist? 

McK. — In the Philippine Islands. 



52 Mckinley in the witness box. 




I 

t 



Breaking the News to Mother* 



NOTICE. 

T^RIENDS and relatives sending matter through 
J- the mails to soldiers in the Philippine Islands, 
should exercise great care in complying with 
the rules of the McKinley Administration. Mail 
expressing sympathy for the liberty loving Filip- 
pinos and of Anti-expansion sentiment, is held in 
San Francisco. Until after election a most rigid 
examination of such matter will exist as the Repub- 
licans feel the need of the solid vote of the 60,000 
soldiers in those islands. With the coming of 
McKinley, died the freedom of speech. 



1 



BRIBERY AND REPUDIATION. 



U. S. — In what particular group of islands? 
McK. — Those governed by the Sultan of Sulu. 
U. S. — How many islands does he govern? 
McK.— Five. 

U. S. — With whose consent does he govern these 
islands? 

McK. — With my consent. 

U. S. — Does he act as absolute monarch of these 
islands ? 

McK. — Yes, sir. 

U. S. — What religion prevails there? 
McK. — The Mohammedan religion. 
U. S. — Is he the head of that church in the eyes of 
the inhabitants of those islands ? 
McK.— Yes, sir. 

U. S. — And you allow all this to go on in territory 
belonging to the United States ? 

McK. — It is one of the results of Imperialism and I 
cannot do otherwise. 

U. S. — Do they buy and sell slaves there at public 
auction ? 

McK.— They do. 

U. S. — Why is it that you do not put a stop to this ? 
McK. — It would cause the sultan to revolt against us. 

U. S. — Are you going to allow this kind of work to 
continue on American soil? 

McK. — This is another result of Imperialism, and 
what can I do? 

U. S.— Who put it into your head that Havana 
needed a belt line railroad ? 

McK. — The railroad contractors. 

U. S. — What party did these contractors support 
in '96? 

McK. — The Republican. 

U. S. — How many systems of railroads now run into 
Havana ? 

McK. — The two lines are controlled by the same 
management. 

U. S. — What is the object of belt line railroads, such 
as they haw in Chicago, Buffalo and other cities ? 

McK. — Belt line railroads are to facilitate the trans- 



54 Mckinley in the witness box. 



fer of cars from one system or line of railroad to another 
and to shorten the dray haul on freight, but of course this 
is of minor importance and especially in Havana, where 
90 per cent, of the incoming freight is shipped immedi- 
ately by water. 

U. S. — How long is this belt line? 

McK. — Four hundred feet less than six miles. 

U. S. — Who superintended the construction of this 
belt line railroad? 

McK. — John Harrington. 

U. S. — How much does Mr. Harrington say this rail- 




HERE IS WHERE WE ARE! 



£3 




We owe English Money lenders 
$10,000,000,000.00 

Our other debts 
$30,000,000,000.00 
Total 

$40,000,000,000.00 

With 80 millions of people in 
the United States, and the debt 
divided evenly, every man, woman 
and child is mortgaged for $500.00. 



road should have cost at the outside figure ? 
McK. — $63,000 or $10,500 per mile. 
Us. S. — How much did it cost? 
McK. — $310,000. 

U. S. — The profit to the politicians, then, that built 
it was how much ? 

McK.— About $225,000. 

U. S. — And this was done with your O. K. ? 

McK. — I had no time to investigate matters, so I 
merely took their word that the line was needed and or- 
dered it built. 

U. S. — What does the superintendent say about the 
bridges the politicians furnished the government? 



ROBBERY. 



55 



McK. — He says they are extremely cheap and very 
weak. 

IX S. — Why did Mr. Harrington resign his position 
as superintendent of construction of this work ? 

McK. — Because as an engineer he claimed the 
bridges unsafe and the rottenest bridges he ever saw 
built by a railroad company in his life. 

U. S. — Did Mr. Harrington protest? 

McK. — Yes, sir ; and he asked that an appropriation 
be made out of the Cuban fund to place them in a safe 
condition. 

U. S. — Was the appropriation granted or refused? 

McK. — By granting it we would have admitted 
fraud, and we were therefore compelled to refuse it. 

U. S. — How many locomotive engineers have re- 
fused to drive their engines across these bridges ? 

McK. — Three have refused and others protested. 

U. S. — Did Chief Engineer Venleer sign the contract 
and papers in connection with this steal himself? 

McK — No, sir; he was instructed to have his assist- 
ant sign them. 

U. S— Why was this? 

McK. — So the blame could be shifted in case of 
necessity. 

U. S. — How many old employes of the Scotten To- 
bacco factory at Detroit were brought face to face with 
starvation as a result of the Tobacco Trust ? 

McK. — Nine hundred and eighty-two. 

U. S. — How long has Scotten been in business. 

McK. — Forty-four years. 

U. S. — How many times has his factory shut down in 
this time ? 

McK.— Once. 

U. S. — When was this? 

McK. — About 20 years ago. 

U. S. — How much were the average weekly wages 
paid out ? 

McK.— $20,000. 

U. S. — The purchase of this factory by the trust has 
necessarily forced these employees to shift to untried 
fields of labor, or in other words, to start in life new? 



56 McKINLEY IN THE WITNESS BOX. 



McK. — All but a small percentage who may possibly 
seek positions in other factories. 

U. S. — What will become of the old veterans who 
have been in Scotten's employ for years and are totally 
unacquainted with other pursuits in life ? 

McK. — Suffering is at hand for the aged veterans, 
many of whom will become stranded entirely, as they are 
too old to begin life again. 

U.'S. — How did Scotten treat his employees? 

McK. — He treated them very kindly, gave them pres- 
ents of money and often of land and homes, he was never 
strict in his bookkeeping, gave frequent holidays and it 
was often said that Old Dan never knew what it cost him 
to run his factory. 

U. S. — What did the trust do when they took hold of 
the business. 

McK. — They tore out a number of the old machines 
and put in new ones that were labor-savers, by so doing 
they threw about 60 out of employment, they began the 




DETROIT GETS A DOSE OF McKINLEYISM. 



MONOPOLIES AND FRANCHISES. 57 



every trifling cost, established a system of fines, fired old 
employees on the slightest provocation and employed 
cheaper ones in their places, departmental managers them- 
selves were in momentary peril of losing their heads, some 
most microscopic method of bookkeeping, charged up 
who worked 10 hours were cut to six and all wages were 
cut 15 per cent, strict averages were kept, each shift was 
charged up in a separate fund, if one department ran be- 
hind a few dollars wages would be cut again and things 
went, so far as the men were concerned, from bad to 
worse, when finally the whole plant was shut down. 

U. S. — Is this a sample of the way wages are raised 
by the trusts? 

McK. — It is, they are not the kind of people that raise 
wages, and treat their employees like brothers. 

U. S. — Why did you appoint Rathbone director of 
the postal service in Cuba? 

McK. — Because Mark Hanna told me to appoint him. 

U. S. — Why did Hanna want him appointed? 

McK. — Because Rathbone assisted him greatly in his 
Senatorial contest. 

U. S. — What did Rathbone do for Hanna? 

McK. — He bought a vote for Hanna and this vote 
made Hanna senator. 

U. S. — When you appointed Rathbone you did it 
knowing at the time that you were rewarding a rascal ? 
McK.— I did. 

U. S. — You knowingly rewarded a scoundrel by giv- 
ing him the handling of millions of dollars worth of 
stamps and money. 

McK.— Yes, sir. 

U. S. — And all to please Mark Hanna. 
McK.— Yes, sir. 

U. S. — You had full power to pay what salaries you ^ 
desired to Cuban officials? 
McK.— I did. 

U. S. — Did anyone else have this power? 
McK.— No, sir. 

U. S. — What salarv did you tell Rathbone he should* 
take? 



58 McKINLEY IN THE WITNESS BOX. 



McK. — I told him he should take what he thought 
the responsibility warranted. 

U. S. — What did he take to commence on? 

McK. — $3,500 per year, and expenses. 

U. S. — Did he raise this? 

McK. — Yes, sir. 

U. S. — To how much? 

McK.— To $6,500.00. 

U. S.— What else did he do? 

McK. — He took $5 per dav for pocket monev. 

U. S.— What else did he do? 

McK. — He charged the government $2,500.00 per 
year for house rent. 

U. S.— What did he do next? 

McK. — He bought $3,000 worth of underwear of 
John Wannamaker of Philadelphia and charged it up to 
the government. 

U. S. — You admit that under your lax administration 
this gigantic fraud was perpetrated ? 

McK. — Yes, sir. 

U. S.— What else did Rathbone do? 
McK. — He appointed Neely and a number of clerks 
under him at large salaries. 

U. S. — Did he give these clerks expense money? 




PUZZLE! 

Total amount of money in 
circulation in the United States 
Nov. ist, 1899, $1,963,716,- 



L. J. Gage, 

Secy, of Treasury. 

Total loans and discounts of 
2,804 banks in U. S., Sept. 7, 
899, $5,75 1 {467,6 1 o. 
Chas. W. Dawes, 
Comptroller of Currency. 




INTIMIDATION. 



59 



McK.— He did. 

U. S. — Is it not a fact that all salaries in connection 
with Rathbone's office were raised within three months 
of his appointment? 

McK.— It is. 

U. S. — Why did you not cause the arrest of Rathbone 
on May 19th on which day you had on your own private 
desk in the White House the $3,000.00 bill for under- 
clothes that the government paid? , 

McK. — Because Rathbone had threatened to give 
Hanna away for bribery if he were arrested. 

U. S. — You knew Rathbone to be an old-time wire- 
puller ? 

McK.— Yes, sir. 

U. S. — And also guilty of bribery? 
McK.— Yes, sir. 

U. S. — And still you appointed him? 
McK.— I did. 

U. S. — How much money did Rathbone's clerks re- 
alize from the sale of old: postage stamps that were or- 
dered destroyed by the department. 

McK. — $87,000 was realized from one lot and if re- 
ports are true the entire sale will reach near $300,000. 

U. S. — -How much shortage is there in the Cuban 
postal accounts including money and stamps both ? 

McK. — The total shortage is upwards of $450,000. 

U. S. — The entire blame of this scandal rests upon 
the shoulders of yourself and Hanna ? 

McK. — I cannot deny it. 

U. S. — In the face of this you came up at the Phila- 
delphia convention for re-election ? 
McK. — Yes, sir. 

U. S. — And you were supported by all the leaders of 
your party ? 

McK. — Yes, sir. 

U. S. — You are charged with frowning upon an in- 
vestigation of the Cuban postal defalcations? 

McK. — It is true that I notified my friends in the 
Senate and Speaker Henderson in the House that I would 
greatly prefer to have no committee sent from either body 



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CUBA WILL BE ANNEXED 

IF McKINLEY IS RE-ELECTED. EVERY 
MOVEMENT ON THE CHECKER BOARD 
POINTS THAT WAY. CUBA WAS 
FREED FROM SPANISH RULE TWEN- 
TY-SIX MONTHS AGO.**/***/*/**/* 



Cuba is still under the absolute control of 
the United States. Its Governors and other 
officials are the appointees of William McKin- 
ley. Its laws are the edicts of William McKin- 
ley. Its taxes and expenditures are under the 
control of William McKinley. It is in fact a 
colony of the United States, governed more 
arbitrarily by officials appointed by and subjec- 
ted to the orders of William McKinley than 
even the territory of New Mexico. It will 
never be an independent nation. McKinley 
went to war (under a cloak of Religion) for 
humanity's sake, to free the Cubans from the 
Spanish Yoke. He has broken faith with both 
Americans and Cubans and established a high 
handed system of Robbery. Can you conscien- 
tiously support him for re-election in face of 
this and a score of other unmanly acts of a 
similar nature? 



FRAUD AND CONSPIRACY. 



61 



to Havana for the purpose of digging up new scandals 
and throwing new light on the old ones. 

U. S. — What were you afraid of? 

McK. — I was afraid that an investigating committee, 
no matter how discreetly it might be managed, would be 
confronted with overwhelming proofs of rascality that 
would shock the people from ocean to ocean. 

U. S. — What does the evidence thus far adduced 
show? 

McK. — That the entire insular postal service was or- 
ganized from the first upon a basis of sordid commercial- 
ism and that it was managed by a gang of money-makers 
placed in power by Senator Hanna. 

U. S. — Why did you order Gen. Merriam and a com- 
pany of colored troops to the Coeur D'Alene mines to as- 
sist the mine owners in breaking their agreement with the 
miners ? 




Gen. Merriam-— "William McKinley sent me here to protect the 
mines, not the miners, and I'll be if I don't do it." 



62 McKINLEY IN THE WITNESS BOX. 



Poor Cuba 

is getting no better fast. 

She has 231 Post Offices including 
the headquarters. 

The total revenues are $250,000 
while the expense of the 
headquarters Administration 
alone, has been $21 9,000 for 
one year, leaving $3 1,000 to 
run the 230 offices. 

Total number of employes 
in offices 603. Average 
salary S900 per year. Aver- 
age rent and sundry expense 
S200 per office. 

Annual Shortage - • $640,000. 



TRUSTS AND COMBINES. 



63 



McK. — It was forced upon me by the owners, their 
friends and representatives. 

U. S. — Who are the stockholders in these Idaho 
mines ? 

McK. — I cannot give the list complete, but I do know 
that the Standard Oil Co. owns large holdings. 

U. S. — What was Gen. Merriam's first act upon 
reaching the mining district? 

McK. — He proclaimed martial law. 

U. S.— What did he do next? 

McK. — He arrested the miners and shut them up in 
a bull pen. 

U. S. — Did he have warrants for the arrest of these 
men? 

McK.— He did not. 

U. S. — Describe the stockade? 

McK. — The stockade consisted of cattle sheds sur- 
rounded by a board fence around which the colored troops 
kept up a vigilant watch both day and night. 

U. S. — Were the miners allowed the privilege of the 




McKinley's Bull Pen in Shoshone County, Idaho. 



yard or were they confined in the sheds and stables used 
by the cattle ? 



6 4 Mckinley in the witness box. 



McK. — They were not allowed outside of the sheds, 
which were closed and locked. 

U. S. — Whoji the miners refused to enter these sheds 
which were filthy with the stench of their former occu- 
pants, what did Gen. Merriam do ? 

McK. — He ordered the colored troops to bayonet the 
miners and to confine the use of their weapon to the men's 
backs. 

U. S. — When Gen. Merriam and the United States 
troops were corraling the men within this bull pen an old 
soldier, feeble with age, was unable to keep up with the 
younger men and was stabbed in the back by a young 
negro whose father he had assisted to free from slavery. 
Why was it that when you were appealed to that you did 
not force Gen. Merriam to punish the soldier who perpe- 
trated this outrage ? 

McK. — Because everything was entrusted to Mer- 
riam and he did not report the case. 

U. S. — Explain by what method arrests were made? 

McK. — Every miner was arrested who stopped work. 

U. S. — When were they tried? 

McK. — They were given no trial. 

U. S. — Who was the District Attorney in Shoshone 
County, Idaho? 

McK. — He was the legal adviser of the Standard 

Oil Co. 

U. S. — What did the district attorney do? 

McK. — He suspended the heabeas corpus idea en- 
tirely and the troops obeyed the orders of the mine owners 
(The Standard Oil Co.), arrested the miners without 
warrants and threw them into the bull pen. 

U. S. — If the courts had issued habeas corpus papers 
what did the district attorney claim he would do? 

McK. — Totally ignore them. 

U. S. — Gen. Merriam, acting under your orders, for- 
bid the mine owners from employing men that would 
not take a certain oath. What did this oath consist of? 

McK. — Before any man could start to work he had 
to take his oath that he disapproved of labor unions, that 
he was sorry he ever joined one and that he would never 
join another. 



FRAUD AND CONSPIRACY. 



65 



U. S. — How long were these miners confined in the 
bull pen without trial? 
McK. — Six months. 

U. S. — Were there any deaths during this time? 
McK. — There were a few. 
U. S. — Were there any attempts at suicide? 
McK. — Yes, sir. 

U. S. — Were there any cases of insanity? 
McK. — Several. 

U. S. — What was the cause of this? 




Effects of The Coal Tkust. 



66 McKIXLEY IX THE WITNESS BOX. 



The Spaniards Outdone. 

c Rathbone ordered Five Carloads of Furniture. 

An Indianapolis firm, the Keyless Lock 
Company had dealings with Director Rathbone 
of the Cuban Post Office service, and this be- 
came known when the Government investigated 
a furniture item of $20,672.05 in Rathbone's 
account. Last October the Kevless Lock 
Company shipped to Cuba live carloads of 
furnishings. The material was shipped on or- 
der from Major Rathbone, and amounted in 
value from $8,000 to $10,000 for which the 
Keyless Lock Company received postal orders 
that were cashed in Indianapolis. 

In connection with the shipment of the 
furniture, it is said that Rathbone made an at- 
tempt to land the goods custom free, under his 
personal frank. This attempt did not wholly 
succeed, it is said. The Indianapolis company, 
however, knows nothing about the Cuban end 
of the transaction. After the goods were ship- 
ped the responsibility of the Keyless Lock 
Company ceased and the company had only to 
await the receipt of its money. 



MILLIONAIRES AND MONEY GODS. 67 



McK. — The unhealthy condition of their surround- 
ings, the fact that they were arrested without warrants, 
not given a trial and were refused interviews with their 
wives, mothers, brothers, sisters and children. 

U. S. — What did Gen. Merriam say when the fore- 
man of the mines protested at this unjust treatment? 

McK. — He said William McKinley, President of the 
United States, sent him there to protect the mine owners' 
interests and he'd be if he wouldn't do it. 

U. S. — Does marshal law still prevail in Shoshone 
County, Idaho? 

McK.— It does. 

U. S. — What was the origin of the trouble? 
McK. — The miners refused to work until a promised 
advance in wages was forthcoming. 




Boer Envoys: "Great Scott! some one must have given" 
us the wrong steer. ' ' 



U. S. — Is this a country where a man cannot stop 
work if he desires, and a country where if a man asks for 
higher wages the Standard Oil Co. or some other corpora- 
tion, through you, their tool, lock him up in a dirty stable 
and leave him there for thrse months without trial while 



68 Mckinley in the witness box. 



his wife and family are starving to death for want of food 
and freezing to death for want of fuel and clothing? 

McK. — Strikes are very injurious to the manufac- 
turers and stringent measures have to be taken at times 
to teach the laboring men their duties toward capital. 

U. S. — You appointed another of your farcical Inves- 
gating committees to investigate this matter? 

McK.— Yes, sir. 

U. S. — What was the first move in the committee 
line, the framing of the decision or the appointing of the 
committee. 

McK. — The committee was appointed and decision 
framed at the same time. 

U. S. — Is this not the same method as used by you in 
the war, beef and transport investigations ? 

McK. — It is a method invented by Hanna and myself 
by which we kill two birds with one stone. When we ap- 
point the committee and furnish the decision at the same 
time the entire matter is practically off our hands at once, 
the people satisfied and the party saved from criticism. 

U. S. — Did Gen Merriam take any means of exami- 
nation to determine the innocence of the prisoners for your 
own information? 

McK.— -He did not. 

U.S. — Why did you not order him to convene a court 
to determine their guilt or innocence? 

McK. — It would have displeased the mine owners, 
who preferred to leave it to one of my investigation com- 
mittees. 

U. S. — Did you or Gen. Merriam take any means to 
determine whether or not any information had been lodged 
against anv of the prisoners ? 

McK.— We did not. 

U. S. — Why was it that Gen. Merriam was continu- 
ally calling on the mine operators to hear their side of the 
story that he did not also call on the laborers to hear their 
side of the controversy? 

McK. — Because he was sent to aid the operators and 
not the laborers. 

U. S. — Have you received any presents from any of 
the Crown heads since you became president? 



MONOPOLIES AND FRANCHISES. 69 



McK. — None whatever. 

U. S. — Have you given any presents to government 
heads ? 

McK.— Yes, sir. 
U. S. — To who? 
McK.— The Sultan. 
U. S.— What Sultan? 

McK. — The Sultan of Sulu. 4 
U. S— What did you give him? 
McK. — $10,000 and an allowance of $500 per month. 
U. S. — Did you give him this out of your own money ? 
HcK. — No, sir. 



" Tbfcl e^mountof money in U.S. 

r ^iSm "N0V.I*99. 

y'/ttjf* outsjj eTtlejr e^sury jfjj63.7i6j4d. 

Money in B ^nks tjmz^aej sb 

^Amount" in dicTuexl M „ n , „ „^ 
^ircuUTton, #^1,229.397 



U. S. — Whose money was itf 
McK. — The taxpayers. 

U. S. — The Sultan is a poligamist, of course? 
McK. — Yes, sir. 

U. S. — What is the size of his harem? 
McK. — He has ten women. 

U. S. — In other words, you gave him a present of 
$1,000 of the taxpapers' money, for each wife? 
McK. — Yes, sir. 

U. S. — And an allowance of $50 per month per head 
to support then* ? 



McKINLEY IN THE WITNESS BOX. 




A RESULT OF MILITARY RULE. 



— ® = 

TWO FACTS 

THAT SHOULD BE REMEMBERED. 

FIRST— McKinley, and Smith, his Postmaster- 
General ordered the mail addressed to the Governor 
of Kentucky to be delivered to W. S. Taylor, who is 
now a fugitive from justice, in Indiana. 

SECOND — The people of Kentucky, the legislature 
of Kentucky, the courts of Kentucky and the Su- 
preme Court of the United States all decided that 
W. S. Taylor (now indicted for complicity in Good's 
assassination), is not and never was Governor of 
Kentucky. 



HYPOCRISY AND INCONSISTENCY. 71 



U. S. — Yes, sir. 
U. S. — Did you sanction the action of Congress in ex- 
pelling Mr. Roberts from Congress on the charge of 
polygamy ? 

' McK.— I did. 
U. S. — Being a professing Christian, it was your 
"Plain Duty?" 

McK.— Yes, sir. 

U. S. — Being the most inconsistent man on earth, it 
was thoroughly in keeping with your past history to de- 
nounce Mormonism in America while at the same time 
you were not only upholding it but supporting a harem, 
at the expense of the country, in Asia? 

McK. — The best interests of the Republican Party 
demanded the purchasing of the good-will of the Sultan 
of Jolo at any price. . 

U. S. — Money plays no important part in legislation 
when the interests of the Republican party are at stake? 

McK.— No, sir. 

U. S. — Wherein did your party profit by the useless 
and wrongful payment of this money ? 

McK. — Our policy until after election is to keep peace 
even if we have to buy it at the expense of the Nation. 
We have been promising and promising the public to put 
down the Philippine insurrection for the last eighteen 
months and have not been able to do it, and if the Sultan 
of Jolo and his 20,000 followers would rise against us it 
would further embarrass the administration and lessen 
my chances of re-election. 

U. S.- — Should any of the other Sultans in the Phil- 
ippine group threaten a disturbance between now and 
November what policy would you pursue? 

McK. — Peace at any price. 

U. S. — You remember just previous to your election 
when the millionaires, corporations and syndicates were 
spending millions of dollars to elect you, that a book was 
published, written by a Mr. Porter, stating the. great inter- 
est shown by you in Bible class, Sunday-school, Y. M. C. 
A., Epworth League and religious work in general ? 

McK. — I do remember the book. 



72 McKINLEY IN THE WITNESS BOX. 



U. S. — Will you state that the statements regarding 
your religious inclinations were not made for the purpose 
of influencing the church vote ? 

McK.— No. 

U. S. — Were all the statements in that book true? 
McK.— No. 

U. S. — Were you at the Ohio State Convention in 
Cleveland, Ohio, in 1884? 
McK.— Yes. 

U. S. — Do you remember that at that convention you 
told your hearers that the difference between the Demo- 
cratic and Republican party was that the Republicans 
never made a promise they did not keep, and the Demo- 
crats never made one they did keep? Now, was that 
statement true ? 

McK.— No. 

U. S. — Have you not made promises to your own citi- 
zens and to the inhabitants of Cuba, Porto Rico and the 
Philippine Islands, since you became President of my 
country, that you never intended to keep when you made 
them? 

McK.— I have. 

U. S. — Do you remember what your brother Abner 
looked like when he was small ? 
McK.— I do. 

U. S. — Did he look then as if he could buy Govern- 
ment transports and pay two or three times their actual 
value ? 

McK. — I cannot say. 

U. S. — Did he look then as if he would work for 25 
or 30 years and make $25,000, and then in three years, 
while his brother William was President, make between 
$700,000 and $800,000 ? 

McK. — I do not know. 

U. S. — Have you any other transport buying rela- 
tives ? 

McK. — No, sir. 

U. S. — Knowing as you did that your brother Abner 
was a marine ignoramous, knowing as little about the 
value of hulls, boilers, engines and shipping as a hen 
knows about building a fence, were you justified in send- 



TREACHERY. 



73 



ing him or allowing him to purchase transports for the 
Government during the war with Spain ? 
McK.— Possibly not. 

U. S. — Then why did you permit him to be sent? 
McK. — Because he was my brother. 
U. S. — Do you think Abner made any money out of 
the war ? 

McK.— Very likely. 
U. S. — How much? 
McK. — I never heard him say. 

U. S— Why did you instruct Wesley Merritt and 
George Dewey to totally disown any assistance from 
Aguinaldo in the capitulation of Manila, when the entire 
American nation,, Dewey, yourself and the world, placed 
a high value on the same ? 

McK. — Within forty-eight hours after Dewey had 
destroyed the Spanish fleet in Manila, seven trusts had 
recognized the value of the retention of these islands and 
had decided to keep them. 

U. S. — Do you think it was right to enforce these 



Tfie Relation of Mor\ey'^ 
to Business f&i lures 

ir>circ^T r r o ^ F&ilures Li&bi I itle!> 

1857 *i5°-° 4.952 ^381000.000. 
1863 *50.°- 2 .495 ^ 7,000,000 
1893 $ 20°-° 9j 





Civ i I w&r mo re m o ney tf\rowr\ i r\T6 ^ 



insurgents who had risked their lives, lost hundreds oi 
friends and spent their money, to abandon their interests 
in this way? 



74 McKINLEY IN THE WITNESS BOX. 



^gf <gj ^ >fc .g; .g; -g; jg.- >g ? -giA^&^g; >S; ^ -ft >fc A -gj >& >fe -g. - 

The Republican party in Havana is a conglomeration of office 
holders, ex-office holders and office-seekers of the higher grade, 
ready for anything to bring them notoriety or fat office. Some 
people think the coming elections will be the first ever held here, 
whereas, under the former regime elections were frequently held 
though the result was also vitiated by fraud. It is also a great 
mistake to suppose that in Cuba men are lacking in aptitude to 
get behind the law and manage elections to suit themselves, for 
many such men exist. 



I 



The famous Abner McKinley Barge. Cost $200,000. 

$350,000. Value $100,000. 



If we are to rule foreign possessions, experience and common 
sense dictate that they should be put under civil service regula- 
tions. But that is exactly what the McKinley administration 
does not want. 



to 
to 



If Cuba is being robbed right and left, being near our shores, 
with no censorship and constant communication, what is happen- 
ing in the Philippines, away off in the Pacific, with a censor in 
charge, and little communication even between the different 
islands of the group? 




Sold for 



No wonder Hanna wants a big Navy. He has $5,500,000 
invested in the Pittsburg Coal Co., (the trust) which supplies the 
Navy with Coal. 



That the Census Records will be used by Hanna for campaign 
purposes, goes without saving. He will have a fresh list of 
16,000,000 votes. 



The Editor of the Spanish Paper, "El Liberal," accused Gen'l 
Otis of trying to capture Aguinaldo. When Otis heard of it he 
ordered the editor jailed and the publication suppressed 



ff 



BLUNDERS AND EXTRAVAGANCE. 75 

McK. — It was right from the trust standpoint. 

U. S. — What did you expect to gain by not protect- 
ing the insurgents ? 

McK. — It was merely a part of our plan to lessen 
their power. 

U. S. — You also instructed the highest military au- 
thorities in the Philippine Islands not to allow the insur- 
gent forces to remain inside the city limits of Manila. 
Why did you do this ? 

McK.— This was another part of our plan to lessen 
their power. Imperialism had already been decided upon 
at that time. 

U. S. — Why did you not tell the public that imperial- 
ism had been decided upon ? 

McK. — We thought it best to spring it by degrees. 

U. S. — Why did you instruct General Merritt to to- 
tally disregard the joint conclusions agreed upon at the 
conference held August 15th between the American and 
insurgent commissioners ? 

McK. — That was another part of our plan ? 

U. S. — How many foreign consuls has Mr. Hanna 
appointed ? , 

McK— Nineteen. 

U. S. — How many bills has he forced through Con- 
gress that interested him financially? 
McK.— Seven. 

U. S. — In August, September and October, 1896, 
when you were making your front porch speeches, how 
many thousand people went to Canton to see you ? 

McK. — 54,000. 

U. S. — How many did the Republican dailies state 
called on you in your front yard ? 
McK. — 400,000. 

U. S. — What was the fare from Chicago to Canton 
and return to see you? 

McK. — From 25 cents up. 

U. S. — What is the regular fare from Canton to Chi- 
cago and return? 

McK.— About $18.00. 

U. S. — The railroads wanted you elected and they, 
with Hanna, concocted the idea that it would dignify af- 




Mark, the Biu, Poster, Working Overtime Last Spring. 



STEALING AND LAW BREAKING. 



fairs and better their chances for electing you if 1,000 car- 
loads of citizens were taken to Canton to see you ? 
McK. — Yes, sir. 




Dewey's a Hero, Bryan's an Orator, but I'm Going to my 
Oi«d Front Porch. 



U. S.- — Is this the country of Washington? 
McK. — It is supposed to be. 

U. S. — And the country of Lincoln and Jefferson? 

McK. — That is what we tell the people. 

U. S. — When you were very reticent about declaring 
war, w r ere you not obeying the orders of M. A. Hanna, 
who for political reasons requested you to wait until the 
public press practically forced it upon you ? 

McK. — I was. 

U. S. — You stated to my citizens when you were 
about to wage war gainst degenerated Spain, that it would 
be a war for humanity's sake, and that the administration 
would not allow it to be a war of conquest, that it would 
not be a war for the acquisition of foreign territory and 
the domains of others, that it would be a just war, and that 
it would be a war solely for the delivery of the oppressed 
into freedom. Now, how much of the Spanish posses- 
sions that were taken by the United States do as 



McKINLEY IN THE WITNESS BOX. 



Not able to Save Himself 
from Bankrupcy, 
and 
Mortgaged 
to the Bankers' Association, 
what can we expect 
of such a man as McKINLEY. 



TYRANNY AND BARBARISM. 



the Republican administration find necessary for govern- 
mental requirements and purposes ? 

McK. — Porto Rico, Cuba, and all the Philippine 
Islands. 

U. S. — Has this war been a war of conquest? 
McK— Certainly. 

U. S. — Has it been a war for the acquisition of for- 
eign territories and the domains of others ? 
McK. It has. 

U. S. — Has it been a just war? 
McK.— That depends. 

U. S. — Has it been a war for the delivery of the op- 
pressed into freedom? 

McK.— Not altogether. 

U. S. — Has it been a war for the purpose set forth in 
the resolution of Congress at the time war was declared ? 
McK.— No. 

U. S. — Then is there any one thing that the Repub- 
lican party, and particularly you, being its head, prom- 
ised to do when war was declared, that you have done? 

McK. — Some blunders have been made. 

U. S. — Then the statement you made in 1884 at 
Cleveland, Ohio, in regard to the difference between the 
Democratic and Republican parties is false in every 
respect ? 

McK.— It is. 

U. S. — Who is your New York State boss? 

McK.— Tom Piatt of New York City, president of 
the United States Express Company. 

U. S. — Did the New York State tax payers have any- 
thing to say in regard to the appointment of delegates to 
the Philadelphia convention? 

McK. — Certainly not. 

U. S. — Do you expect to be nominated and elected 
this fall bv machinery? 
McK.— I do. 

U. S. — Did Boss Piatt keep his promise and have 
vour administration endorsed at his ratification meeting? 
McK. — He did. 




top /^-O 



The Heroes of the War 

Schley, Dewey, Lawton, 
Logan and Wheeler. 



McKinleys heroes are 
Sampson, Shafter, Chadwick, Otis, , 
Alger and Egan. 




This is the Way McKinley 
Preserved Himself Intact 
and Disposed of His Pos= 
sible Opponents for the 
Second Xvtm^d^^ 



Loss of Life and Money Did Not Alter His 
Devilish Plans. 



"Three Major Generals set aside, and Shafter, an 
unknown quantity, made commander/' 

Wheeler "prevented from having an important 
command." 

Otis "kept in command because incapable of 
making a record." 

Lee ''purposely kept in obscurity." 
Merritt "returned." 

Bryan prevented from going to the front. 
"All the Rear Admirals set aside at the begin- 
ning of the war, and three Commodores, Dewey, 
Schley, Sampson, selected." 

Dewey "relegated after his return, into obscurity 
so deep and gloomy that he only was released when 
he could be criticised." 

Roosevelt "now the subject of malicious para- 
graphs from the gang." 

Long "informed coldly but blandly by the Presi- 
de at that he would not do for Vice President. His 
boom lasted over night." 

Alger "forced to retire in obloquy and disgrace 
because he had not the courage to conduct his de- 
partment by himself, sacrificed for his devotion on 
the second term altar." 

Corbin "played against Miles so that neither 
can be promoted." 

Schley "sent to command a squadron far aw 7 ay." 
Sampson "has disappeared." 
Miles "kept in the background." 



IMPERIALISM AND MILITARISM. 81 



U. S. — It would not have made any difference what 
your policy had been it would have been endorsed any- 
way ? 

: McK.— Certainly. 

U. S. — What did Piatt do at that convention? 

McK. — He said nothing. He sat in his seat with the 
other delegates, and put in his vote, which did not count 
for any more than any other farmer's vote. 

U. S. — Is the President of the United States Express 
Company a farmer? 




HERE LIE 

The bodies 0^375 American 
Soldiers.wfy)likve beeq 
killed little p^Ilipiryes 
Since Genera! Offe put' 
.downtfe-Rchellior] ttjere 
©months &qo 




McK. — He was a delegate representing the farming 
community of Tioga County, New York. 

U. S. — Is this not a charming picture of Republican 
simplicity ? 

McK. — It certainly is. 

U. S. — What did Otis say about the Philippines a 
year ago ? 

McK. — He said all armed resistance to the United 
States forces had ceased and that only a few bands of 
straggling robbers were infesting the country. 

U. S. — In the third week of April, 1900, 10 months 
after he made this statement, how many rebels were killed 
and captured in the Philippine Islands ? 



82 Mckinley ix the witness box. 



McK. — 378 rebels were killed and 225 captured in 
seven days. 

U. S. — A large number of American labor experts 
who have investigated the labor question claim that the 
annexation of Porto Rico and the Philippines will work 
competition with the laboring classes of the United States? 

McK. — It will. 

U. S. — The promise of security to the laboring popu- 
lation which was made by your party in '96 was made in 

vain ? 

McK. — The acquisition of these islands will be fol- 
lowed by freedom to labor, freedom to pursue every in- 
dustry and every art. 

U. S. — How will imperialism effect labor? 

McK. — It will make labor cheap, and with a deprecia- 
tion in the price of labor there will be an appreciation in 
the value of money. 

U. S. — On what ground and for what reasons have 
we in the past excuded Chinese from the states and terri- 
tories of the Union ? 

McK. — Because they outnumber our millions many 
times over, and in labor contests our laboring class would 
be broken down, impoverished and ruined. 

U. S. — Xow, why is it that in view of this fact vour 
conscience has become so twisted and distorted as to per- 
mit you to annex 10,000,000 of just such people to the 
Union ? 

McK. — My employers instructed me to do so and 
therefore I decided it would be best for the people in 
general. 

U. S. — Did Mr. Woodruff, our late minister to Spain, 
tell the truth when he said that William McKinley brought 
on the war w r ith Spain when he might have averted it 
and secured the freedom of Cuba in six months by di- 
plomacy ? 

McK. — Do not ask me such questions : let the past be 
past and hope for the future. 

U. S. — The Protocol was dictated by you, the treaty 
was extorted from Spain by a commission that was sub- 
servient to you, without a show of resistance the treats- 
was ratified by your commissioners and the aid of such 



CORPORATIONS AND SYNDICATES. 83 



diplomacy as you could command and finally your procla- 
mation of power and purpose of December 31, 1898, be- 
came a declaration of war without the authority of Con- 
gress, as early as the 5th day of January, 1899, by its pub- 
lication in the city of Manila ; now, by that act did you not 
make yourself a despot, as much so as is the Czar of all 
Russia ? 

McK.— I had to do it. 

U. S— It is now 19 months since you refused to listen 
to terms of peace or to concede an hour's delay in the 
prosecution of the Philippine war. In these 19 months of 
murder, blood-shed, and robbery, the war has been yours 
and yours alone; you have not consulted Congress, and 



THE ARISTOCRACY 

foresee the necessity of hired Soldiery, single 
men, housed up in Armories and Forts, away 
from the refining influences of home, trained 
in cruelty, anxious to plant bullets in the body 
of some fellow human being and ever ready 
to obey the commands of the tyrants in office 
who give them their pay. It is not an army 
composed of the sons, husbands and fatSvers 
of the nation that the privileged classes now 
want. They realize that the present system 
of plunder and pillage will soon result in gen- 
eral riots and that in order to continue the cor- 
ruption in office it will become necessary to 
establish a Monarchy. Thus their^policy of 
Imperialism and Militarism. 



the country has not had an opportunity to speak. Is this 
a government of the people, by the people and for the 
people ? 

McK.— No, sir. 

U. S— Which is of the most value to your managers, 
human life or merchandise ? 

McK. — In this case, merchandise. 

U. S. — Can the lives of our young men already sac- 
rificed compensate for the extension of markets for liquors 
and cotton cloth? 




84 McKINLEY IN THE WITNESS BOX. 



PRIMA FACIE EVIDENCE THAT MCKINLEY WILL 
STOOP TO ANYTHING. 
NATIONAL HONOR DISREGARDED 




The Pratt- Wildman agreement with Aguinaldo was valid, but McKinley 
now says they had no authority. The following letter from the interpreter 
between Aguinaldo and the American representatives will shed further light 
on the subject: 

Hongkong. March, 8, 1899. 

"The state documents lately published 
furnish food for reflection by Americans 
generally, who value their national word 
of honor pledged to General Aguinaldo 
in Singapore on April 26th last, by the 
American consul-general, in my presence 
whilst acting as interpreter. It is un- 
dignified and unworthy of a great nation 
to be guilty of such duplicity, and now 

say the consul had no power to offer any 
The Dispatch Boat sent by the U. S. Gov- , . , , . * 

ernment to bring Aguinaldo and his such thm S- As a matter of fact, the 
Chiefs to Manila to aid Dewey. consul did not offer it of his own respon- 

sibility, but acting under the instructions of Admiral Dewey. In the first 
interview the conditions of General Aguinaldo's policy were clearly stated, 
submitted to Dewey, and the latter cabled his acceptance, requesting Agui- 
naldo to proceed with every possible haste to Hongkong, and leave in the first 
available vessel, which was the ' McCulloch.' I was aroused from my bed at 
midnight by the consul to look up Aguinaldo and communicate the telegram 
to him, in order that he might catch a steamer leaving at day light in the 
morning. This has not yet been made public, but I think the time has now 
arrived when reserve is no longer justifiable, after this shameful treatment 
of the Philipinos by the Americans 
It is no use to argue that Dewey had 
no authority, because, from the state 
documents lately published, we learn 
that Dewey had instructions to use 
his discretion, and agreeably with 
this discretion he brought back 
Aguinaldo to IyUzon under the pro- 
mise of independence, whilst Consul 
Wildman of Hongkong supplied him 
with several cargoes of arms and 
ammunition. No amount of official 
or diplomatic denial can alter these 
facts. 

"HOWARD W. BRAY." The Singapore lodging house, where the Am- 
Interpreter. erican officials asked Aguinaldo to return to 
the Philippines. 




HYPOCRISY AND INCONSISTENCY. 85 



McK. — Markets have been made in the past by mak- 
ing enemies of mankind. 

U. S. — Is it right for you to persecute the inhabitants 
of the Philippine Islands because they refuse to submit to 
your demands, when your demands are much more than 
the demands made by George the III. of England in 1776? 

McK.— It is not. 

U. S. — How much has the war cost to date? 
McK. — Over $250,000,000. 

U. S. — How many soldiers have you to the square 
mile in Luzon? 
McK.— One. 

U. S. — How many people to the square mile in 
Luzon ? 

McK. — Ninety-five. 

U. S. — What have you demanded for the Philippine 
Islands ? 

McK.— Military rule. 

U. S. — One American soldier then rules over ninety- 
five natives? 

McK.— Yes. 

U. S. — And now you tell us that liberty, equality and 
justice go with the flag that floats over those islands ; how 
do you justify your statement? 

McK. — With the fact that the war is a Christian war. 

U. S. — If the Saviour of mankind were to return to 
this earth and offer you wisdom and advice, what does 
your conscience tell you that that advice would be ? 

McK. — To allow Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philip- 
pine Islands to set up a government for themselves free 
from any dictation by myself. 

U. S. — That advice would indeed be a policy of peace, 
one that would end the killing of American youths in the 
Philippine Islands, one that would drive the perils from 
the laboring population, one that would guarantee us the 
friendship of three new born republics, one that would 
relieve us from the suspicion that w r e are co-operating 
with England in an attempt to subjugate the w r eak nations 
of the world for the benefit of the Anglo-Saxon race. 
Were you an honorable man what would you say regard- 
ing the policy of imperialism ? 



86 McKINUEY IN THE WITNESS BOX. 



McK. — I would say that it is hostile to liberty, that it 
tends towards militarism, that it is an evil from which it 
has been our glory to be free : I would state that I regret 
that it has become necessary in the land of Washington 
and in the land of Lincoln to reaffirm that all men of what- 
ever race or color are entitled to life, liberty and the pur- 
suits of happiness. I would maintain that governments 
derived their just powers from the consent of the gov- 
erned, I would insist that the subjugation of any people is 
"criminal aggression" and open disloyalty to the distinc- 
tive principles of our government. 

I would earnestly condemn the policy of the present 
national administration in the Philippines, I would seek 
to give the spirit of 1776 to these islands, I would deplore 
the sacrifice of our soldiers and sailors whose bravery de- 
serves admiration even in an unjust war. I would de- 
nounce the slaughter of the Filipinos as a needless horror. 
I would preach against the retention of American sov- 
ereignty by Spanish methods. I would demand the im- 
mediate cessation of the war against liberty, begun by 
Spain and continued by us. I would urge Congress to 
immediately grant to the Filipinos the independence for 
which they have so long fought and by right is theirs. I 
would say to myself, the United States have always 
preached against the doctrine of International Law which 
permits the subjugation of the weak by the strong. I 
would say to myself that a self-governed state cannot ac- 
cept sovereignty over an unwilling people. I would say 
to myself that the United States cannot act upon the an- 
cient heresy, "that might makes right." I would say to 
myself that with the destruction of self-government in the 
Philippine Islands by American hands, that all opposition 
will not cease here. I would stop the war of "criminal 
aggregation" in the Philippines, and regret that the blood 
of the Filipinos is on American hands. I would deeply 
resent the betrayal of xAjnerican institutions at home. I 
would consider that under imperialism our greatest foe 
is our own household and not on the firing line. I would 
say to myself that whether the ruthless slaughter of the 
Filipinos shall end next month or next year, is but an in- 
cident in the contest that must go on until the Declaration 



PILLAGE AND PLUNDER. 



8 7 



of Independence and the Constitution of the United States 
are rescued from the hands of their betrayers. I would 
say to myself that those who dispute about standards of 
value while the foundation of the republic is undermined 
will be listened to as little as those who would wrangle 
about the small economics of the household while the 
house is on fire. I would say to myself that the training 
of a great people for a century and the aspiration of lib- 
erty of a vast emigration, are forces that will hurl aside 
those in the delirum of conquest, seeking to destroy the 
character of our institution. 

I would say to myself that the obligation of all citi- 
zens to support their government in times of grave na- 
tional peril does not apply to the present situation. I 
would say to myself that representative government is im- 
periled if an administration may with impunity ignore the 
issue upon which it was chosen, deliberately create a con- 
dition of war anywhere on the face of the globe; debauch 
the civil service for spoils to promote the adventure, to or- 
ganize a truth suppressing censorship and demand of all 
citizens a suspension of judgment and their unanimous 
support while it chooses to continue the fight. 

I would propose to contribute to the defeat of any 
person or party that stand for the forcible subjugation of 
any people. I would oppose for re-election all who, in the 
White House or Congress betray American liberty in pur- 
suit of un American ends. I would hope that both of our 
great political parties would support and defend the 
Declaration of Independence in the closing campaign of 
the century. 

I would hold with Abraham Lincoln that no man is 
good enough to govern another man without that other 
man's consent. I would hold that when the white man 
governs himself, that is self-government, but when he 
governs himself and also governs another man that is 
more than self-government — that is despotism. I would 
feel that our reliance were in the love of liberty which 
God has planted in us. I would feel that our defense is in 
the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men in 
all lands. I would feel that those who deny freedom to 



88 McKINLEY IN THE WITNESS BOX. 



44 Plain Duty ' promoted "The Liar" 
For Brilliant Military Record. 

Part of the Record for whi c h McKinley promoted Otis. 

Secretary of War: 

Washington, D. C. 

"The insurgents have been scattered and driven east to 
the mountains. Our troops are now in the mountains in 
pursuit. There is now no concentrated insurgent force of 
importance in Luzon. Organized Rebellion no longer ex- 
ists. Our troops are actively pursuing robber bands." 

GENERAL OTIS, 
Gov. Gen. P. L, Manilla, Dec 12, 1899. 

It is an insult to the nation for McKinley 
to promote this self Confessed Liar in face of 
the fact that Official Records and Dispatches 
show that 

OVER iooo AMERICANS HAVE FAL- 
LEN IN BATTLE SINCE OTIS SENT 
THIS NOTORIOUS MESSAGE. 

More troops have been called for and United 
States Surgeons Baker, Thornburg, Bell, 
Byars, Collie, English, Hines, Howell, Marion, 
Merrick, Norris, Ohliger, Springwater, Stoney, 
Stormberg, Trook and Ward have lately been 
sent for in post haste. 



SCANDAL AND EXPENSE. 89 

others deserve it not for themselves and under a just God 
they cannot long retain it, 

U. S. — What is the true purpose of human govern- 
ment? 

McK. — It is the promotion and development of the 
human race. 

U. S. — What marks the rise and decline of civiliza- 
tion? 

McK. — Increase or decrease in home ownership. No 
nation can be truly great where a majority of the families 
are tenants and not the owners of homes. 




We Don't Need You Any Longer, Tom; We Have Gone 
Into the Trust. 



U. S. — What is the cause of the overthrow of repub- 
lics and the creation of monarchs? 

McK. — Individual selfishness. 

U. S. — In whose interests are laws now made. 

McK. — In the interest of property owners, manufac- 
turers and bankers. 



90 McKINLEY IN THE WITNESS BOX. 



ARE WE TO GIVE THE 

REPUBLICANS 
CREDIT 



For the temporary prosperity that followed the 
expenditure of the $200,000,000 war loan ? 



It was merely a natural result that would 
have followed no matter which party controlled 
the country. 



Do not allow the Republicans to take credit 
for that which does not belong to them. 




No! 




The National Bank Stretching Process. 



DECEPTION AND NEGLECT. 91 

U. S. — When the people permit a class of citizens to 
do their thinking for them, what is the result? 

McK. — Legislation in favor of the selfish interests of 
the classes and against the masses. 

U. S. — What is the result of this kind of legislation? 

McK. — Revolution or monarchy. 

U. S. — Is not this the very kind of legislation the Re- 
publican party is giving to my citizens ? 

McK. — It is. 

U. S. — What is the greatest stumbling block that con- 
fronts the American nation? 

McK. — That the people will not educate themselves 
on questions of national policy, and that they will not ex- 
press their opinions through the ballot box, and that there- 
by they favor the influence of the selfish class. 

U. S. — On what theory is an empire or monarchy 
founded ? 

McK. — On the theory that those who have grown 
rich and who have first obtained their riches by class legis- 
lation know best what laws should be made and what poli- 
cy the nation should pursue. This class of people educate 
the masses to this belief and force the latter to the position 
of dependants and tenants. 

U. S. — What causes people to lose the pride of home 
and hope of the future? 

McK. — They lose this pride when they become hope- 
less tenants and can see no better future for themselves. 

U. S. — What is the difference between a dependent 
and an independent citizen ? 

McK. — A dependant citizen is one who depends upon 
some one else for employment and who is not able to live 
without employment ; an independent citizen is one who is 
able to live without employment. 

U. S. — Out of the 76 millions of people in my country 
how many are dependant and how many independent. 

McK. — Seventy-five million are dependent and one 
million independent. 

U. S. — What is the cause of this condition of affairs? 

McK. — Class legislation. 

U. S. — What laws are most detrimental to the masses 
and in favor of the classes ? 



J THE REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATION, J 
J WHICH INCLUDES THE BANKING and J 
J TRUST MAGNATES CONTROL 83 OUT 
OF 100 OF THE GREAT DAILIES OF 
========= AMERICA ======= 

When the Porto Rican bill was passed, the Republican 
Editors were immediately summoned to Washington and 
instructed not to oppose the policy of the administration 
no matter how unjust. The Press is corrupted, muzzled, 
and swayed solely by political considerations. It is no 
longer a safeguard to the people. The former avenue of 
genuine reform has been barred by money. 

The poor tax ridden dependencies of Spain tried to es- 
cape robbery through rebellion only to fall victims of the 
Trust and Tariff Robbers of the United States. 

The old ideals upon which our Government and Con- 
stitution rest, the fundamental principles of the Republic, 
every thing that we hold sacred, or which has been the in- 
spiration to patriotic and liberty-loving impulses in the 
past, tremble in the balance. 

Trusts and monopolies riot in their ill-gotten gains 
while the rich become richer and the poor poorer. 




STAND BY THE PRESIDENT.' 



BROKEN PLEDGES AND DEGENERATION. 93 



McK. — Our financial laws. 

U. S. — Is it not a fact that with a small amount of 
money in circulation business and employment are im- 
peded ? 

McK. — The volume of business and demand for la- 
.bor are usually increased in proportion to the increase of 
currency in circulation. 

U. S. — Is it not a fact that when money is plentiful 
labor is higher ? 

McK. — History bears out that statement. 

U. S. — Now, why is it that the Republican party op- 
poses legislation placing more currency in circulation 
when the financial statement of the Secretary of the Treas- 
ury shows that only $2.51 per capita is in circulation out- 
side of the banks ? 

McK.— Because when money is scarce it is higher in 
price. 

U. S. — In whose hands have you placed the money 
question ? 

McK. — At the present time it is in the hands of for- 
tune hunters and members of an association which can 
contract and expand the quantity at their pleasure. 

U. S. — When you know that this class of men take 
advantage of every law for their enrichment, why was it 
you appointed Lyman J. Gage Secretary of the Treasury 
and Charles G. Dawes Comptroller of the Currency, both 
being wealthy bankers ? 

McK. — Because I considered that it would be best for 
the common people to have experienced men take charge 
of affairs. 

U. S. — What has been Mr. Gage's history as a money 
lender ? 

McK.- — His record shows that he has always endeav- 
ored to keep down the supply of money. 

U. S. — What is the running expenses of the govern- 
ment ? . * 

McK. — Over $600,000,000 annually or about one- 
third of the amount in existence in the United States to- 
day. 

U. S. — Now, when you deduct from the amount of 
money in circulation the amount necessary to run the U. 



94 McKIXLEY IN THE WITNESS BOX. 




McKinley has introduced at Washington the methods of Abso- 
lutism. He promptly relegated to the rear the issues upon which 
he was chosen. He violated the pledges of his party platform as 
respects our foreign relations. He committed the country to a 
revolutionary course. He deliberately created a state of war in 
the Philippines. He debauched the civil service to promote the 
adventure. He demanded of all citizens a suspension of judgment 
and unanimous support while he sees fit to continue the fight- 
ing. The powers which he exercises today in Cuba, in Porto 
Rico and in the Philippines are those of a military despot. 



BRIBERY AND REPUDIATION. 



S. government and the amount necessary to run the vari- 
ous state, county and city governments, how much does it 
leave for the common people to do business on ? 

McK. — About one hundred million dollars, or one 
dollar and a quarter for each person. 

U. S. — Now, in view of the government statement 
that business men owed the 12,804 banks on September 7, 
1899, $5, 751,467,610, does it not show conclusively that 
the volume of money in circulation should be increased? 

McK.— It does. 




The Farmer and the Wire Trust, 



U. S. — Now, why is it when there is not $2,000,000,- 
000 in circulation in the United States today that these 
banks had loaned out on the 7th of September, 1899, 
nearly $6,000,000,000 ? 

McK. — The banks loaned the same money three 
times. 

U. S. — What security do National banks give the 
United States government? 

McK.— United States bonds. 



An Outlet for Trust Earnings. 



SCHEMES AND HANNAISM. 



97 



U. S. — What interest does the government allow 
them on the bonds ? 

McK. — 3 and 4 per cent. 

U. S. — Is it right then for the government to pay 4 
per cent, interest to the banks on the bonds when the bank- 
ers loan, reloan and loan again the money and obtain on 
an average 1 per cent, monthly and make at least 16 per 
cent, per annum ? 

McK. — It is not right, but as long as the people are 
willing that such will be the case, the Republican party do 
not deem it their duty to interfere. • 

U. S. — How much money do the business men of this 
country pay to the banks annually for the amount in» ex- 
cess of $2,000,000,000 that is necessary for them to handle 
for business purposes ? 

McK. — $345,000,000 interest each year provided they 
only pay 6 per cent, per annum. 

U. S. — The laws of the United States allowing the 
bankers by a certain process to stretch $1, 762,486,751 to 
7,513,954,361 in other words is equivalent .to giving them 
a present per annum of how much ? 

McK. — $345,000,000, or one-half of the running ex- 
penses of the government. 

U. S. — Is Mr. Gage president of the First National 
Bank of Chicago? 

McK.— He is. 

U. S. — What do the quarterly dividends of Mr. 
Gage's bank amount to? 

McK. — 3 per cent, per quarter, or 12 per cent, per 
annum. 

U. S. — What is this bank's surplus? 

McK. — $2,000,000,000. 

U. S. — What is a surplus fund? 

McK. — Undivided profits. In this bank report in ad- 
dition to the surplus fund of $2,000,000,000 it has $505,- 
855.67 as undivided profits. 

U. S. — Why is it that in bank reports the surplus 
fund and undivided profits are not all placed in the same 
item? 

McK. — To make it appear to the people that the 
profits are not so large. 



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More Conniving 
By the Man 
Of Straw 



The Railroad Commis- 
sioners of the United 
States in their conven- 
tion the other day en- 



dorsed the Cullom Bill to give the United States 
Inter-state Commerce Commission power to secure 
an effective enforcement of the Inter-state Commerce 
Law. 

This bill is designed to attain the actual preven- 
tion of the evils of discrimination, secret rates and 
favoritism. In all public discussion the rail- 
road REPRESENTATIVES HAVE PROFESSED a desire 

to have these abuses abolished. Yet when a bill 
to secure that end is presented by the Chairman 
of the Senate Commerce Committee it is shelved 
and suppressed by the action of Senators like 
Depew, Wolcott and others who hold their places 
by virtue of corporate influence. 

It is well to remember, here, that the Vander- 
bilt interests put up over $1,000,000 to McKinley's 
corruption fund in 1896. It is therefore quite plain 
to be seen why Mr. Depew, representing their 
interests, was placed on this commission with 
Mr. Wolcott and others also representing Railroad 
interests. 



CROOKEDNESS AND CORRUPTION. 99 



U. S. — Mr. Gage's frank was organized in 1882, its 
shares were then worth $100, what are they worth now ? 
McK.— $330 each. 

U. S. — Wealthy bankers in addition to the 12 per 
cent, they make out of loans and the 4 per cent, they get 
from the United States government, which is 16 per cent, 
altogether, make fabulous amounts ? 

McK. — They certainly do. 

U. S. — What is the salary of the president of the 
First National Bank of Chicago? 
McK. — $25,000 per annum. 

U. S. — After paying large salaries, in 18 years Mr. 
Gage's bank has laid away 83 per cent, in undivided prof- 
its., paid about 16 per cent, interest and marketed its stock 
for 3 3-10 times its face value. Now, is there any other 
business in the United States that can make this remark- 
able show? 

McK.— None whatever. It is only a question of time 
when one per cent, of the people will own all the property, 
and 99 per cent, of the people will be tenants. 

U. S. — Does it not stand to reason, Mr. McKinley, 
that Mr. Gage uses every available influence which his 
position gives him, not only to protect but also to further 
advance legislation that benefits his class and enables that 
class to manipulate the blood of civilization to their 
profits ? 

McK. — To prove that class legislation is in favor of 
the banks, I refer you to the fact that U. S. bonds ire not 
taxed. 

U. S. — Why do you not advocate a law to tax United 
States bonds ? 

McK. — Because the president of the Bankers' Asso- 
ciation, Myron T. Herrick, of the city of Cleveland., took 
up a subscription of over $100,000 for me and paid off that 
amount in debts that I had previously contracted, and 
never asked me to pay one cent of it back. 

U. S. — Was there any other man associated with Mr. 
Herrick in the raising of this money to pay your debts and 
get vou in shape financiallv for the presidential campaign 
of 1896? 



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oo Mckinley in the witness box. 



Gross Extravagance 

McKinley pays over 5 cts. per pound 
to Railroads for carrying Mails : 

Number of pounds of U. S. Mails 
carried by R.R. in 1899, 610.000,000. 
Amount paid Railroads for 

cartage $31 ,000,000. 

President Cleveland 

had arrangements all completed to 
save the country $15,000,000 per year. 
Within six months after McKinley 
was inaugerated every economy intro- 
duced by Cleveland was wiped out. 

The Average haul of Mail 

as shown by the Postmaster General's 
report, is 448 miles. Express Co.'s 
carry that which is delivered to them 
in large quantities, distances of 500 
miles, for ic. per pound, 610,000,000 lbs 
of mail at ic. per pound would only 
cost $6,100,000. 



The Difference 

between the Express charges and the 
present Railroad charges would save 
the country $24,900,000, and as the 
Railroads get two-fifths of the gross 
receipts of Express Company's, they 
would still get $2,440,000. 



BOSSES AND BOODLE. 



101 



McK. — H. H. Kohlsaat of the Chicago Times-Her- 
ald, which is Mr. Hanna's Chicago organ. 

U. S. — Do you consider that a man who obtains a 
good start in life from his parents, and who marries a 
wealthy banker's daughter and who has had the prime of 
his life in which to make and save money, and who at the 
age of fifty-two owes over $100,000, is a fit man to con- 
duct the affairs and regulate the business matters of 76 
millions people? 

McK. — It does not stand to reason. 

U. S. — -How much money does America owe Eng- 
land? 

McK. — $10,000,000,000. 

U. S. — What introduced the gold standard in 
America ? 

McK. — English money lenders. 

U. S. — Who owns much of the stock in American 
railroads ? 

McK. — Englishmen. 

U. S. — How much land do Englishmen own along 
the line of the Northern Pacific railroad which was taken 
under a mortgage ? 

McK. — 50,000,000 acres. 

U. S. — How much land does Lord Scully own in 
Illinois ? 

McK. — 40,000 acres. 

U. S. — How many acres does he own in Nebraska 
and Kansas. 

McK.— 50,000. 

U. S. — How much does he own in Michigan? 
McK. — 80,000 acres. 

U. S. — What per cent, of the wealth of the United 
States outside of what Englishmen hold is held by the 
common class? 

McK. — Four per cent. 

U. S. — Does this not prove that our land, the natural 
heritage of the people, is passing into the hands of Eng- 
lish and American money lenders, and that a land of lib- 
erty is being desecrated by laws which have evaded the 
attention of the people? 

McK.— It does. 



MAC AND HIS "COAT OF MANY COLORS." 




McKINLEY— "Mark, how docs it fit?" 

HANNA— "Mine friendt, it fits you like der paper on der vail/' 



IN ONE YEAR, 1899. 

The (Authorized Issue of Industrial Trust 
Certificates alone exceeded $6,000,000,000. 

There is scarcely a manufactured article in general use that is not controlled by 
a combination in some form. All these combinations apply to the " Business- 
Manager " of the "Republican Party" for "Protection" under the "Tariff," 
or for immunity in breaking or evading the law. 

"Liberty, ' ' "Justice" and "Self-Government" are 
"Things of the Past" and the "Leading Statesman* 9 
has been replaced by the "Business Manager." 



REBATES AND RAKEOFFS. 



U. S. — How much interest does America pay Eng- 
land annually on the $10,000,000,000? 
McK, — $400,000,000. 

U. S. — How much money does the American nation 
owe altogether ? 

McK. — $40,000,000,000. 

U. S. — How much would every man, woman and 
child, whether red, black or white, in the United States 
owe, provided the debt was divided evenly ? 

McK. — $500.00 ekch. 

U. S. — How much are the railroad debts of the 
United States? 

McK. — $12,000,000,000. 

U. S. — How much are the real estate debts of my 
citizens ? 

McK. — $6,000,000,000. 

U. S. — How much do my citizens owe in judgments 
and in deliquent taxes ? 

McK. — $3,000,000,000. 

U. S. — Are these enormous debts increasing or di- 
minishing? 

McK. — Increasing. 
• U. S. — Is it not a fact that the more we owe the more 
money the banks and bankers make ? 

McK. — It is a fact. 

U. S. — As the lawmakers of the nation are practic- 
ally in the bankers' hands, do you ever expect the United 
States to get out of debt ? 

McK. — Never. 

U. S. — What is the amount of interest on money that 
is paid annually by the citizens of my country ? 
McK. — $2,000,000,000. 

U. S. — What is the total assessment of property in 
the United States ? 

McK. — $25,000,000,000. 

U. S.— How much has the nation's debt increased in 
the last twenty years ? 

McK. — $10,000,000,000. 

U. S. — What was the amount of money that parties 
owed who failed in business in 1899? 
McK. — About $150,000,000.00. 



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More McKinley Economy 

Average life of R. R. Mail Car, - 20 Years. 

Average Cost of R. R. Mail Car, - $4,000 

Number of R. R. Mail Cars now used by Gov- 
ernment, - 700 

Rent paid to R. R. by McKinley administration 
for each R. R. Mail Car, per year, $5,700 

Amount of Annual Robbery from Rent of 
Cars, - $3,500,000 

At the time the McKinley administration 
came into power, arrangements were completed 
to save this amount. When ex-Senator Vilas 
was postmaster general during Mr. Cleveland's 
term he investigated the cost of such cars and 
reported that they could be built for less than 
the annual rental paid by the Government. 
The average life of these cars is at least 20 
years, so that an annual rental of $700, or 20 
per cent, upon the cost of these cars would seem 
to be an exhorbitant charge ; yet the Govern- 
ment goes on, year after year, paying the rail- 
roads an annual rental of $5,700, or more than 
150 per cent, of their probable cost. The only 
remedy is to be found in the office of the second 
assistant postmaster-general and it will not be 
found there so long as monopolies and trusts 
and organized greed control. f& 



FRAUD AND CONSPIRACY. 



U. S. — How much money and property in the United 
States has been put into trusts since you became president 
of this county? 

McK. — Over $4,000,000,000. 

U. S. — What is the stock of the American Steel & 
Wire Company? 

McK. — $50,000,000 common stock and $40,000,000 
preferred. 

U. S. — About what sum does this trust clear an- 
nually ? 

McK. — $12,000,000. 

U. S. — How much stock has the American Tobacco 
Company ? 

McK.— $68,500,000. 

U. S. — What do they clear annually? 

McK— About $8,000,000. 

U. S. — What is the stock of the Carnegie Steel 
Company ? 

McK. — $3 5 ,000,000 . 

U. S. — What do they clear annually? 

McK. — About $5,000,000. 

U. S. — What is the stock of the Distilling Company 
of America? 

McK— $77,500,000. 

U. S. — About what do they clear annually? 
McK. — $9,000,000. 

U. S. — How much stock has the National Steel Com- 
pany ? 

McK. — $59,000,000. 

U. S.— What do they clear? 

McK. — About $5,500,000. 

U. S. — How much stock has the National Tube Com- 
pany? 

McK.— $80,000,000. 

U. S. — What do they clear annually ? 

McK. — About $9,000,000. 

U. S. — How much stock has the Standard Oil Com- 
pany? 

McK — $97,250,000. 



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How would Mark Hanna ever get into the Senate by 
popular vote. 

You will have to pay your share of the Postal steal. It 
would not be right to expect the Cubans to pay for the privi- 
lege of being robbed by foreigners. 

300.000 pounds of MeKinley's embalmed beef was thrown 
overboard during the Spanish-American War. The Secretary 
of the Treasurery paid Swift & Co. just the same. 

The post-master at Trovat, Utah, was dismissed for poli- 
gamy. On the same day President McKinley made the Sultan 
of Jolo a present of $10,000, of the peoples' money. The 
Sultan has ten women in his harem. 

The United States pays 50,000 daily for maintaining its 
army in the Philippines. The average daily exports from that 
delectable group to the United States are $5,212. Does 
Imperialism pay ? 



STEALING AND LAW BREAKING. 107 

U. S. — About how much do they clear annually? 

McK. — $80,000,000; but while the face value of the 
stock of the Standard Oil Company is $97,250,000, the 
actual value of this stock is at least $700,000,000. 




"Annointed with the Sacred Oh,." 



U. S. — Why is it that so many millions of dollars 
have been put into the 'form of trusts since you have be- 
came president? 

McK. — Because under my administration trusts are 
protected. 

U. S. — Are the trusts a benefit to the laboring men 
and farmers ? 

McK. — None whatever. 




The short-time debts due banks 
from business men Jan. 1st, 1900, 
amounted to $5,751,467,610. This 
* is about one-eighth of the debts of 
the nation and shows the necessity 
of a larger supply of money for con-f 
ducting business and preventing 
the Money Gods from eventually 
owning the country. 



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Once in four years the mails 
transported over one-fotirth 
of the various railroads of 
the United States are weigh- 
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days. Upon the average 
weight thus obtained the 
compensation of each road is determined for the next 
four years. During this quadrennial weighing hun- 
dreds of sacks of documents franked by United States 
senators and representa- 
tives have been sent to rail- 
way agents who received 
envelopes containing slips 
of paper or labels franked 
by the senators so that 
they could be remailed and 
reweighed . During the past 
three years special arrange- 
ments have repeatedly been 
made with newspapers pub- 
lished along the lines of the 
roads to ship immense 
quantities of Sunday papers 
at the pound rates during 
the thirty days' weighing, 
and many other methods of 
padding have been resorted 
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HYPOCRISY AND INCONSISTENCY. 109 



U. S. — As people do not consume as many manu- 
factured articles when they are at a high price as when 
they are at a low price, does it not stand to reason that 
less men would be employed under the trust ? 

McK. — I did not look at in that light before. 

U. S. — How can you, a professing christian, con- 
scientiously sit in the highest seat in the land and watch 
the American Steel and Wire company rob the farmer 
and the mechanic out of two dollars every time he buys a 
keg of nails and proportionately when he buys barb wire? 
How can you conscientiously approve of the Standard Oil 
Company's robbing system w T hich gives them a profit of 
$80,000,000 per year on a $97,500,000 investment? 

McK. — The Standard Oil Company under John D. 
Rockefeller has lowered the price of oil and not raised it, 
and this trust has thereby been a benefit to the people. 

U. S .— When it costs the Standard Oil Company 
only if cents a gallon to make the oil, and with the crude 
oil only costing them $1.25 a barrel, and all the waste ma- 
terials being used in the manufacture of axle grease, soap, 
chewing gum and twenty other things, is it right for them 
to charge the consumer 8, 10 or 12c per gallon? 

McK. — -In this case "might makes right/' 

U. S. — Who owns the National City Bank of New 
York City? 

McK. — The Standard Oil Company. 

U. S. — How many million dollars worth of govern- 
ment funds are deposited in this bank? 

McK. — About $19,000,000.00. 

U. S. — How much interest does the Standard Com- 
pany pay the people of the United States for the use of 
this $19,000,000. of their money? 

McK. — Nothing. 

U. S. — On February 28, 1888, you said on the floor 
of the house that "Nearly $59,000,000 of the people's 
money was out among the banks and that they were get- 
ting it without interest." Now, if it was wrong for the 
banks to get this money without interest in 1888, is it not 
wrong to-day ? 

McK.— I am merely following out what the last ad- 
ministration did. 



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A Splendid Appointment 



Four Postal Schemes for Robbery and 
Plunder, not being enough to satisfy the devil- 
ish desire of our " Plain Duty" puppet, he ap- 
pointed Shellenberger, counsel of the Pennsyl- 
vania Rail Road, to decide, for the citizens of 
this country what the Pennsylvania System 
and its connecting lines, the New York Central, 
Michigan Central, West Shore, Boston and 
Albany, Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, 
and every other Rail Road in the United States 
should receive from the people for carrying the 
Mails. Mr. Schellenberger set the price at 
between 5 and 6 cents per pound. 




BLUNDERS AND EXTRAVAGANCE. 



1 1 1 



U. S. — Did you not severely criticise President 
Cleveland for doing the very same thing that you are 
doing to-day ? 

McK. — I criticised Mr. Cleveland at that time not 
realizing the fact that it was a benefit to the people to 
have the money distributed to the national banks in ver- 
ibus parts of the country. 




They Will let it Sleep Till After Election. 



U. S. — How much of the people's money is (June 
15th, 1900) in the hands of the national banks for which 
they pay no interest? 

McK. — $1 10,000,000. 

U. S. — The states of Pennsylvania, Maine, New 
York, Michigan, Vermont, Massachusetts and Connecti- 



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THE POOR FOOL! 

THE THOUGHT DIDN'T STRIKE 
HIM THAT "WE HAVENT GOT 
THEM YET." 

At Pittsburgh on August 23th. 1898 McKinley said: 

"Peace has brought us the Philippines." 
At Redheld, South Dakota on October 14th, 1S99, he 

said: ''The Providence of God" threw the Philippines 

in our lap. 

At Madison, Wis.. October 16, 1899, he said: "The Army 
and Navy have brought us the Philippines.'' 

At Boston, February 16. 1S99, he said; "The Philippines 
were intrusted to our hands by God.'' 

In his "Message to Congress." April 11, 1898, he said: f T 
speak not of forcible annexation. That, by our code 
of morals would mean criminal aggression." 

In bis "Treaty of Peace" we read that 11 Spain cedes to the 
United States, the Archipelago, known as the Philip- 
pine Islands." 




The Trusts Demand a One-Man Government. 



DEATH AND MURDER. 



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cut obtain interest on state funds deposited in banks, why 
is not the United States entitled to interest? 

McK. — If it is right in the one case it is right in both. 

U. S. — If the Standard Oil Company would pay 4 
per cent on the $19,000,000 which they have with your ap- 
proval how much would it amount to annually? 

McK. — $560,000 yearly. 

U. S. — By this process what amount do you give 
away annually. 

McK. — $4,000,000. 

U. S. — When you raised the popular loan of $200,- 
000,000 to carry on your war you sold the bonds at par, 
knowing that on the market they were worth from a $1.06 
to a $1.09, now, how much money did you give away on 
this deal ? 

McK. — $15,000,000.00. 

U. S. — Do the small banks have the same opportun- 
ity to fleece the people as the larger ones ? 
McK.— No." 

U. S. — Do you think the Standard Oil Company's 
bank will ever become as rich as the Bank of England? 

McK. — It will if our legislation regarding money 
matters is not altered. 

U. S. — When the banker takes a 4 per cent bond, 
walks over to the treasury, deposits it, and takes out of 
the treasury dollar for dollar of the people's money, takes 
the money to his bank, uses that money for nothing and 
draws 4 per cent, on his bond, is it anything else than a 
legal way of robbing the people ? 

McK. — There is another view of the matter, we 
needed the money and had to have it and as the banks had 
the money, we had to go to them for the most of it. 

U. S. — The Standard Oil Company's bank was one 
of the banks that a short time ago forced a "Black Fri- 
day" on New York and not only made untold millions but 
held up the government of which you are the head and 
demanded more deposits for nothing and they got them; 
why did you give it to them ? 

McK. — The government under the circumstances 
was forced to buy its peace and was glad, indeed, to buy it. 

U. S. — In 1837 a panic occurred, New York banks 



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man 

enough to govern 
another man without 
that other's consent. 
When an American 
governs himselt, 
that is self-gov- 
ernment : but 
when he governs 
himself and also 
governs another 
man, that is more 
than self-govern- 
ment — that is 
despotism. 



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p ri ze s liberty 
as the heritage 
of all men, in all lands everywhere. 
They who deny freedom to others, deserve 
it not for themselves, and under a just God 
cannot long retain it. 



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suspended business, there was a general wreck, yet the 
banks paid bigger dividends that year than usual, now, 
are not panics made to order by the big banks, and during 
these supposed panics when the banks go to the govern- 
ment for aid do they not make millions ? 

McK. — They do but it is a benefit to the people as it 
cleans out unstable financial institutions. 

U. S. — In other words, the "big fish eat up the little 
ones." 

McK.— That is it exactly. 

U. S. — George III of England, in a proclamation to 
the American rebels in 1876 used just about the same 
w r ords that you have now used to the inhabitants of the 
Philippines : He said, "I desire to restore to the Ameri- 
can peQple the blessings of law and liberty, equally en- 
joyed by every British subject." Now, is it not a fact that 
the American people had less cause to rebel in 1776 than 
the Pinos have at present ? 

McK. — Yes, but Aguinaldo in his manifesto of Jan. 
5, 1899, said that his government could not remain indif- 
ferent, in view of a violent and forcible usurpation of a 
portion of territory by a nation who calls itself the cham- 
pion of nations, and that his government was prepared to 
commence hostilities if the American forces attempted to 
carry out the orders of the president of the United States, 
and I did not desire to be dictated to by Aguinaldo. 

U. S. — At Pittsburgh on the 28th of August. 1899, 
you told the people that peace brought us the Philippines. 
On October 14, 1899, at Redfield, S. D., you said that by 
the "Providence of God, who works in mysterious ways, 
this great archipelago was put into our lap." Two days 
later at Madison, Wis., you said that the army and navy 
had brought us new territory : now, how could peace, the 
army and navy, and God all have brought us the Philip- 
pine Islands at the same time ? 

McK. — I cannot say. 

U. S. — Can you think of anyone else that brought us 
the Philippines? 
McK.— No. 

U. S — Who is to decide when the people of the Phil- 
ippine Islands are capable of governing themselves ? 



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McKINLEY'S SHAMP ROTECTION 
TO THE LABORING 
CLASSES. 



Are we to compel millions to submit to our 
authority and exact allegiance from them, and 
then deny to them the right to travel, and to 
labor in the country to which they belong? 
Are we to extort from them contributions of 
money in peace, and exact service of them in 
time of war, and yet deny to them the privi- 
lege of visiting the capitol of the country that 
they serve? 

McKinley's promises of security to the 
laboring population are ridiculous. 

The acquisition of these islands, in what- 
ever form the acquisition may be made, must 
be and will be followed by freedom to travel, 
freedom to labor, freedom to pursue every in- 
dustry and to practice every art. 



MONOPOLIES AND FRANCHISES. 117 



McK.— William McKinley. 

U. S. — Who is to decide when the inhabitants of 
Cuba are fit for self-government? 
McK.— William McKinley. 

U. S. — Who is to decide when the people of Porto 
Rico are able to govern themselves ? 
McK.— William McKinley. 

U. S. — Who is to decide how much taxes these peo- 
ple shall pay ? 

McK.— William McKinley. 

U. S. — Who is to appoint the military rulers over 
these countries? 

McK.— William McKinley. 

U. S. — Who is to appoint the civil officers in these 
islands? 

McK.— William McKinley. 

U. S. — Who dictates the details of government in 
these islands ? 

McK.— William McKinley. 

U. S. — Who buys the supplies for these islands? 

McK. — They are bought under my supervision. 

U. S. — What business have you got to rule these peo- 
ple? 

McK. — I am merely pursuing my policy of imperial- 
ism. 

U. S. — You being a servant of M. A. Hanna, and M. 
A. Hanna being a servant of the trusts, and the trusts 
being the servant of the great banking institutions, the 
lives and welfare of the twelve millions of people in these 
islands are practically in the hands of American money 
kings ? 

McK. — Certainly. 

U. S. — During the past three years you have pos- 
sessed a power over the liquor traffic such as God gives to 
but one man in a generation. You have been in a position 
as commander-in-chief of the military forces of the United 
States to regulate hundreds and hundreds of saloons that 
are dealing out death and damnation to hundreds of sol- 
diers. Fathers, mothers, wives and sweethearts by scores 
of thousands have appealed to you to do it ; army chap- 
lains ever since the year of President Cleveland's estab- 



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The first time Willie ever got away from him. ] 




Onee and once only has Mark Hanna had to cool his heels m the President s 
ante-chamber, just as ordinary Senators and other members of Congress are fre- 
quently compelled to do. It was Hanna's first experience at this sort of business 
and it set him in a towering rage. Admiral Dewey had been closeted with Mi 
McKinley a half hour discussing Philippine affairs. The mighty Mark s presence 
was abruptly impeded by a polite protest from the messenger at the door. ^ 

"The President is busy" said the messenger, "and cannot be seen at present. 
"Is that so?" asked Hanna, in amazement. "Here, take my card into nim. 

The Presidential servitor bowed as he received the card and backed tnrougn 
the partially opened door. Id a moment he returned and said : The Presidept 
asks that you excuse him this morning and call around this afternoon. He will 
be busy with Admiral Dewey until noon." 



TYRANNY AND BARBARISM. 



Ushm£nt of the canteen system, have testified to its cursed 
influence : nearly every high military officer in the service, 
including Gens. Miles, Shafter, Otis, Henry, Wood, Cor- 
bin, Wheeler, and others are on record against the can- 
teen, yet to please the whiskey trust you have allowed the 
canteen system to exist with executive sanction. And this, 




Havana Under McKinl,ey. 



too, after congress, in response to the appeals of the peo- 
ple to save our soldiers, passed a law prohibiting it, a law 
which your Attorney General and your Secretary of War 
immediately proceeded to nullify. 

The prohibitory law in Alaska has been repealed 
with your sanction and that vast territory with its desper- 
ate seekers of fortune and Indians that are crazed by drink 
is given over to the whiskey trust. 

The brewery trust followed the American flag to Ha- 
waii and Puerto Rico. They followed it to Cuba, which is 



i2o Mckinley in the witness box. 




UNPRECEDENTED AUDACITY 




THE McKINLEY-NEELY VARIETY 



In f^ce of the 
reports of Eu- 
ropean Repre- 
sentatives to 
their govern- 
ments regard- 
ing -the actions 
of the American 
and Spanish 
navies in the 
late war, the 
Administration 
(for Political 
Purposes and 
by a court con- 
trolled by Mc- 
Kinley) gave 
the honor of the 
Santiago vie. 



tory to Sampson. Portions of the reports are as follows-' 

FRENCH. 
Schley being two points ahead of Sampson should have 
been in command. Feports of Sampson regarding 
damage to Monro Castle overdrawn. 

BRITISH. 
At the time Cervera appeared at mouth of harbor 
Sampson was 20 miles distant. Battle lasted forty-five 
minutes. Schley was in command. No guns on Morro 
Castle misplaced as reported. 




MILLIONAIRES AND MONEY GODS. 121 



at present under your military control, and set up 2,000 
saloons with your sanction. 

When England commanded China at the cannon's 
mouth to receive her opium you stood aghast at the awful 
wrong ; but when the American troops marched into Man- 
na the first time, there went with them an agent of the 
brewery trust who had ship loads of liquor on the way, 
and within seven days after the hoisting of the starry ban- 
ner over the doomed city 430 saloons were established 
which soon began their awful warfare against decency and 
honor. 

Dr. Schurman says the saloon is our greatest problem 
in the Philippines. Travelers tell us that every street is 
lined with them ; and that the city of Manila is one grand 
scene of continuous Saturnalia of drunkenness and vice, 
carried on with the consent of the President of the United 
States. You being a professing christian and in a position 
to regulate the sale of liquor in our new possessions, and 
to American soldiers, and also being a crank on "plain 
duty," why is it that you do not exercise some of the 
"plain duty" ? 

McK. — The church is not, like its Master, the friend 
and champion of the poor. It has thrown sops of charity 
to the unfortunate, but has not defended their rights. The 
church has stood by and watched the rich become richer 
and the poor poorer, and it lifts not its voice in defense of 
the weak in their battle against the strong. 

Through silence the church has sought to curry favor 
with the privileged class and unfeelingly it has turned 
from the sorrows of the oppressed. Great questions ask 
for solution, great wrongs appeal to be righted, but where, 
O where, is the church? Diplomatic dealings in church 
matters would soon place church and state as one, which 
has been the curse of many countries. 

The church deals diplomatically in ethical generali- 
ties because it fears its revenue will be cut off if it attacks 
specific sins. It covers with cast-off shoes and patched 
garments, the shivering limbs of the outraged multitude 
while corporations, and trusts, and breweries take bread 
from their mouths. The poor user of oil, leather, sugar, 
matches, lumber, iron, paper, the telegraph, express com- 



122 McKINLEY IN THE WITNESS BOX. 



THE GENERAL PUBLIC 

Is of the opinion that Aguinaldo was fighting Spaniards near 
Manila when Dewey arrived there in May, 1898. This is not the 
case as the Republicans would like to have you believe. 




These messages are copies of U. S. Maval and State Records 
and shows beyond doubt that U. S. officials induced Aguinaldo 
to return to the Philippines. 



TREACHERY. 



123 



panies, railroad, street cars, gas, glass, wire, tin„ coffee, 
coal, flour, and coffins, pays tribute to the cormorant 
trusts whose stockholders ride in private cars or sail in 
private yachts through sunny seas, and the church merely 
puts before these men, richer than princes and kings, the 
grave duty of contributing liberally, according as God has 
prospered them, and then with Brother Rockefeller of the 
Oil trust, or Brother Havemeyer of the Sugar trust, or 
Brother Vanderbilt of railroad fame, unites in prayer. 

The church is w r orldly in its refusal to champion the 
cause of temperance and sobriety, and people who live in 
glass houses should never throw stones. Only 1 per cent 
of the church voting membership, vote the temperance 
ticket wmile the 99 per cent vote with the distiller, the 
brewer, the saloonkeeper, and his bartender. Why should 
it ask me to remove the army canteen ? In my own state 
there are 300,000 church members who are voters while 
the liquor contingent claims but 30,000, and no satisfac- 
tory temperance legislation and no temperance laws have 
they ever enacted, so how can they ask me to remove the 
saloons from Manila, Ilio, Havanna, Santiago and Ponce ? 

U. S. — Because the church does wrong that does not 
excuse you. 

McK.— It excuses me in the eyes of the people and 
that is what I need most at present. 

U. S. — Do you know why it was that the administra- 
tion favored Rear Admiral Sampson and persecuted Rear 
Admiral Schley? 

MgK. — Schley is a Democrat. Sampson is a Repub- 
lican. 

U. S. — Is it true that Rear Admiral Schley ranked 
two numbers ahead of Rear Admiral Sampson when the 
battle of Santiago was fought? 

McK.— That is true. 

U. S. — Considering the fact that Admiral Schley 
was at the mouth of Santiago harbor when Admiral Ce- 
vera attempted to escape while Rear Admiral Sampson 
was 15 or 20 miles away the only part taken by Sampson 
in the battle being to chase one Spanish boat 50 or 60 
miles out in the Carribean Sea, which any ordinary cap- 
tain would have done, while Rear Admiral Schley de- 



i24 Mckinley in the witness box. 



McKINLEY WILL GO INTO THE HOTEL # 
BUSINESS AFTER ELECTION. , # 



Arrangements have been completed for McKinley to go 
into the Hotel business in Canton if he is defeated. His 
best friends premeditate the possibility of a landslide for 
Bryan. They claim that Canton does not possess good 
hotel accommodations, that the business of the town will 
warrant the building of a big hotel and that McKinley is 
the man to run it. Ex- Vice President Morton has amassed 
a fortune in the hotel business since his retirement from the 
political arena. 

Mr. Neely is somewhat of a thief, but his larceny does 
not approach in magnificence that perpetrated by Wm. 
McKinley. 

Not less than 95,000 Filipinos haye been killed, woun- 
ded and captured according to Otis, and all to please the 
Millionaires who put up to the campaign fund. 

HANDICAPPED UPON ALL FOURS. 




Mark 
McK. 



What do you think of your chances, Mack ? 
They are mightv slim on that beast. 



CRIME AND PERSECUTION. 



stroyed, disabled or captured the balance of Cevera's 
fleet. Who is the true hero of the battle* of Santiago? 
McK. — Rear Admiral Schley. 

U. S. — How much money was stolen from the gov- 




William Goebel, Murdered by Republicans for Political 

Purposes. 

ernment through the fraud and conspiracy in connection 
with the government engineering works in Georgia? 
McK. — I cannot give the exact amount. 



126 McKINLEY IN THE WITNESS BOX. 



Barge Office Evils. 



Of all the abuses of to-day there is nothing 
so absolutely brutal as the way people are 
treated at the Immigration Bureau of the Barge 
Office in New York. Uniform and persistent 
brutality reigns supreme while McKinley still 
holds his ear to the ground. 



The Sugar Trust 

being encouraged by administration backing, 
now compels human beings to work ten hours 
per day, in 150 degrees of heat. 




Without Warning. 



IMPERIALISM AND MILITARISM. 127 



v U.S. —Why was it that Capt. Carter, who was one of 
the parties connected with the case, was not sent to the 
Leavenworth military prison twenty months ago ? 




Branded as Frauds by McKinley. Declared by the Supreme 
Court of the United States to be innocent of Fraud, 
and the Legal Possessors of Kentucky's 
State Offices. 



McK. — Because there are other people mixed up in 
the case and we were afraid that Carter might give the 



128 McKINLEY IN THE WITNESS BOX. 




Our Chief Executive has been denounced by 320 ministers in his 
own State, 96 of which are members of his own Church. 

Hanna's profits during McKinley's administration would pay 
the running expenses of the State of Indiana for 22 months. 

THE EXAMPLE we are setting the inhabitants of our new 
possessions is certainly GOOD. 

Is it any wonder the Railroad Engineers would not drive their 
Engines over McKinley's Railroad Bridges in Cuba. 

What has McKinley done with the $50,000,000 appropriated at 
the beginning of the War ? He has given no account of it. 

Hazel sold his Yacht, valued at $45,000, to the Government for 
$80,000, and now it is listed at $25,000. 

McKinley gave Peck $1,200,000 to spend at the Paris Exposition. 
Peck is squandering this money to suit himself. Xo detail account 
of expenditures is on file at Washington, The salaries of his em- 
ployees average $4,500 per year. An item for experts is listed by him 
at $75,000. 



ROBBERA . 



whole deal away and injure the administration, and in 
addition we desired to have everything go smoothly be- 
tween ourselves and the contractors, who are very wealthy 
and who have of late subscribed heavily to the corrup- 
tion fund, however, we had matters fixed so that Car- 
ter was sent to Leavenworth just "before election to -be par- 
doned out just after, thus relieving the administration 
from any negligence in regard to the matter ,and thus 
giving us an opportunity to keep in the good graces of 
Carter's friends who have also been large subscrib- 
ers to our fund. The evidence that convicted Carter, if 
produced against his fellow conspirators might land them 
behind the bars, and as Carter had boasted that he would 
not go to the penitentiary alone it took us about a year to 
get the matter straightened up. 

U. S. — You have a friend in Kentucky by the name 
of Tavlor who w r as defeated for govenor by William Goe- 
bel? ' 

McK.— Yes, sir. 

U. S. — After Mr. Goebel had been assasinated by 
prominent Kentucky Republicans and your friend Taylor 
had obtained information from inside circles that a secret 
indictment was about to be issued for his arrest as an ac- 
cessory to the murder of William Goebel, Taylor went ta 
Washington and called on you for assistance? 

McK.— Yes, sir. 

U. S.— What did you tell him? 

McK. — I told him if it were possible for me to ap- 
point an investigating committee something like we had 
to investigate the Spanish war and the condition of the 
transport Manauese that I thought we could clear him, 
but as that w r as not possible the best we could do in his 
case would be to furnish him with plenty of money to 
hold up the court and defeat justice. 

U. S. — Do you know how much money was supplied 
him ? 

McK. — I cannot say exactly. Pennsylvania Republi- 
cans sent him checks for $1,500, at Washington he got 
about $3,000, but I cannot say how much more. 

U. S. — Are you acquainted with Henry Youtsey and 
Tallow Dick Combs ? 



i 3 o Mckinley in the witness box. 



£ The Republican campaign orators whose oily 
tongues flop to the tune, of syndicate dollars, will 
tell you this fall, that, a million dollars a day that 
now pours into the pockets of foreigners, will be 
diverted to the coffers of our own people when the new 

Tropical Am- 
erican possess- 
ions become 
producers. 

The entire ex- 
ports of Cuba, 
Porto Rico, the 
Ph i 1 i p pines , 
Hawaii and 
Guam during 
ioof their palm- 
ist years did not 
average $300,- 
000.00 per day, 
and never will 
average $500,- 
000.00 per day, 
while the Re- 
publican party 
sfe. since December 
1899, have been 

The "Plain Duty" fence erected at a paying out of 

cost of $2,095,000* the United 

States Treasury $1,000,000.00 per day for their 
retention. Statistics show only 68% of our tropical 
imports as coming from these islands. 




CORPORATIONS AND SYNDICATES. 131 

McK. — They are two of my Kentucky supporters, 
but I am not acquainted personally with the gentlemen. 

U. S. — Do you think Governor Taylor was legally 
entitled to the governorship ? 

McK. — He was not. Governor Goebel was duly 
elected and properly qualified. Now that Goebel is dead, 
Beckham is governor of Kentucky, but of course for ad- 
ministration purposes it was my duty to support Taylor. 

U. S. — What class of people in Kentucky are your 
staunch supporters? 

McK. — The mountaineers, moonshiners and their 
employees. 

U. S. — Do you think it was right for Taylor to bring 
1,200 mountaineers to Frankfort on Jan. 25, to furnish 
them with a specially chartered train and afterwards to 
supply them with arms and ammunition to defeat justice, 
at the same time charging it up to the state ? 




The Assassination of Goebee by Republicans. 



McK. — It was such a small thing in comparison with 
our Philippine army which is engaged in the same busi- 
ness that I paid but very little attention to the matter. 



132 McKINLEY IN THE WITNESS BOX. 




McKIXLEY — "Here's to the extermination of the Boers." 
J. BULL — "Here's to the slaughter of the Pinos." 



THE LABORING CLASSES 

SHOULD CONSIDER THE 
FACT THAT 

Free trade between the Colonies and the States will follow the 
establishment of McKinley's Colonial System without much de- 
lay. Such has been the policy of England which he tries to imitate. 
The question before the country is this : 44 Shall the laboring and 
producing classes of America be subjected to a direct and never 
ending competition with the underpaid and half-clad laborers of 
Asia, or shall the Republic of America be transformed into a 
Colonial Empire with like consequences to the laboring classes ? 
This is the gravest question ever submitted to the American 
laboring man. A way of escaping is before you. Will you 
accept it? Your future will be decided November 6, 1900. 



HYPOCRISY AND INCONSISTENCY. 133 



U. S. — Did you ever uphold murder for political pur- 
poses before? 

McK. — No, sir. 

U. S. — What is your attitude toward the Transvaal 
Republic in their present fight with England? 

McK. — I think England is right and the Boers should 
be slaughtered the same as the Filipinos. 

U. S. — But the Boers have been driven by the Eng- 
lish from Cape Town into Natal, from Natal into the 
Orange Free State, and from the Orange Free State into 
the Transvaal, and now the English want to drive them 
out of the Transvaal back into the centre of Africa; how 
do you justify your position? 

McK. — The Boers only pay one-eighth of the taxes, 
the Anglo-Saxon race pays the balance. If a Boer comes 
to the United States he can be naturalized in four years; if 
an American goes to the Transvaal the chances are that 
he will die of old age before Jie is naturalized. A Boer 
can go to California, dig gold and keep it, if an American 
goes to the Transvaal he has to give up 35 per cent of it, 
and for these reasons I desire to see England wipe them 
off the face of the globe. It is England's plain duty to up- 
hold the authority of the Anglo-Saxon race in Africa the 
same as we are doing it in Asia. 

U. S. — -But this is one of the bloodiest wars that ever 
occurred in the history of the world. England, a powerful 
nation, has 240,000 men, while Paul Kruger has but 60,- 
000, and as you once said it was a disgrace to civilization 
that questions of right were determined by might, how do 
you justify your statement? 

McK. — I made that statement before the Philippine 
war started. My ideas regarding these matters have 
changed in the last two years. 

U* S. — A Peace Conference of the nations of the 
world was held last summer at "The Hague" and an in- 
ternational treaty was formulated relative to the estab- 
lishment of peace which received the signatures of the 
diplomatic agents of the twenty-six governments repre- 
sented. This treaty recognized as a principal of interna- 
tional law, that any power can offer mediation between 
combatants without danger of international complications 



IJ4 McKIXLEY IN THE WITNESS BOX. 



PRATT AND WILDMAN LED THE FILIPINOS LIKE 
p SHEEP TO THE SLAUGHTER. McKlNLEY ORDERED 
9 THEM KILLED. GOD PITY HIS GUILTY SOULUUU 

M 

||j At midnight on the 22d day of April, 1898, in a re- 
f|j mote quarter of the ancient city of Singapore, while ex- 
~lg ercising the greatest secrecy, Howard W. Bray, tapped 
on the door of a foreigners lodging house in pursuit of 
fp an exile, who was living a quiet and contented life, at 
the house of one of his countrymen. 

Who was this exile? Aguinaldo. Who wanted him? 
Ip United States Consul Pratt of Singapore, United States 
^ Consul Wildmau of Hong Kong and Commodore Dewey p= 
||| of the U. S. Pacific Squadron. Who needed his services? fig 
McKinley and the American nation. Dewey wired for g§ 
him, Wildman wired for him. The Captain of the U. S. 
Hi Cutter "Petrel"' called upon him personally. Pratt in- 
terviewed him. Dewey sent a 0. S. Battle ^hip to trans- 
port him to Manila. United States officials haunted 
him and begged him to return to Manila. The United 
States government furnished him with arms and ammu- 
nition, Wildman instructed him to set up a Dictatorial Ip 
Government in the Islands. Dewey himself choose the 
pattern of the Filipino Flag. United States officials 
ii 4 = promised him if he would return to the Philippine Is- 
lands, renew the insurrection among his followers and 
besiege Manila by land while Dewey beleagured it by f£§ 
sea, that their government would free his countrymen 
from the bondage of Spain. Aguinaldo fulfilled his 
agreement and in a reasonable time requested the United 
States to fulfill theirs. 

That midnight tap at the Singapore lodging house 
|p was a fatal tap. McKinley not only refused them the 
lip promised freedom, they had fought for so many years, 
but ordered Otis to shoot them down in cold blood. 
Like Xero, Pharaoh and others of his class his sins of 
omission and commission have caused untold misery and 
brought tears to the eyes of millions. His ignorance has 
already cost our tax payers over S200, 000. 000. 00, while K5 
|| his ''plain duty"' theory, has placed beneath the sod of || 
m those far distant islands, 10.000 of our choicest sons 
Ip and formerly recognized allies. These allies, on the MS 
S shores of the Lake of Galilee, were made our equal by 
111 the Savior of Mankind, when he said: "In the sight of 
py God all men are equal." 0, McKinley, where is your 
|=j€ honor, your honesty, your consistency and your loYe of 
liberty? God, pity your guilty soul. 



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IMPERIALISM AND MILITARISM. 135 



resulting therefrom. Now, as you have no excuse for not 
offering to mediate, why is it that you do not offer friendly 
advice toward arbitration ? 

McK. — It would make me the laughing stock of 
Europe. To tell the truth everybody knows that England 
has more right in the Transvaal than we have in the Phil- 
ippines, and it would be the height of folly for us to ask 
England to withdraw her army from the Transvaal with- 
out withdrawing our own army from the Philippines. 

U. S. — But the Transvaal is a sister republic while 
England is an empire. 

McK. — There is very little difference to-day between 
an empire and a republic. England has her possessions all 
over the world and the United States has possessions in 
the Atlantic, in the Pacific, in the Arctic and in the Indian 
oceans, and w 7 e could not for an instant consider the 
Transvaal a sister republic under these circumstances. 

U. S. — Upon the one side there is a heroic struggle 
for justice and right and upon the other the exercise of a 
brutal force for oppression and wrong. By what right or 
autnority has Great Britain to interefer with the interna- 
tional affairs of an independent government? By what 
act of international law does she protect her right to de- 
mand the modification or repealing of the statutes of a 
republic. Beyond the peradventure of a doubt England 
has no more right to interefere with the internal affairs 
of that republic than we have to interfere with the internal 
affairs of England. The language of the treaties solemn- 
lv ratified by Great Britain show that the South African 
republic is as free to control its internal affairs as the 
United States is to control its own affairs. 

McK. — But Holland transferred to England her pos- 
sessions in South Africa years ago and England is the 
owner of the Transvaal Republic just the same as we are 
the owners of the Philippine Islands. 

U. S. — But when Holland ceded her possessions to 
England she could not cede the Transvaal Republic be- 
cause she did not possess it. 

McK. — Neither could Spain transfer the Philippines 
except Manila, the rest of the country was in the hands of 
the insurgents. Spain and Holland both sold something 



i 3 6 McKIXLEY IN THE WITNESS BOX. 




Mark: Pump harder Mac, she's spreading! 

In the course of his speech, published in the Congressional Record, Senator 
Bacon stated that the Cuban receipts for 1S99 amounted to 816,000,000 and the ex- 
penditures to $14X)00,000. Deducting the cost of the municipalties— 31, 239,000— 
and treating the items of expenditures for justice and public instructions, 
which were lumped— §790,000 — as for education alone, and deducting this also and 
the postal expenses, Mr, Bacon made the expenditure for current cost of govern- 
ing the island about $11,000,000. 

Mr. Bacon compared this with the expenditures of several of the states, all 
but one or two much larger in population than Cuba, and all with much more 
highly organized governments. The result of the comparison is shown in the 
following table of the current annual expenditures for Cuba and the states 
named: 

Cuba 811 000 000 

Missouri 1 707 137 

Indiana 2 980 000 

Minnesota 4 650 000 

Kentucky 2 73S 000 

Michigan.. 



Georgia 872 000 

Massachuetts 3 500 000 

Arkansas 550 000 

Mississippi 749 000 

Tenneseee 2 580 000 

3 584 000 



The government of each one of these states ought seemingly to cost more 
than the temporary and incomplete government of Cuba. And yet Cuba 
cost from four times to twenty times as much as States having larger populations 
and more complete governments. 



SCANDAL AND EXPENSE. 



x 37 



they did not own, but England and the United States will 
never admit it. 

U. S. — The Boers were told forty years ago by the 
governor of Cape Colony that if they did not like British 
rule and the laws of that country they could leave, now 
the English have been told by Paul Kruger that if they 
do not like Boer rule and the laws of the Transvaal that 
they too can leave ; when the Boers were told to leave they 
left, when the English were told to leave they stayed. 

McK. — It was right for the English to stay because 
they could not take the mines that net them $150,000,000 
a year with them. We cannot leave the Philippine Islands 
and take the mines and products of those islands which 
representatives of the various trusts have discovered. 

U. S. — But the Transvaal Boers had hardships of the 
severest kind and wars with the natives that in ferocious- 
ness were indescribable. 

McK. — So have the Filipinos, they have lost thous- 
ands of men and fought the Spaniards for two centuries. 

U. S. — But the Boers have appealed to the nations 
for intervention. 

McK.— So has Aguinaldo. 

U. S. — It seems incredible that two nations that are 
continually boasting about their advanced civilization and 
progress, should boastingly violate every principle of 
right and justice? 

McK. — Wherever you find the Anglo-Saxon race 
have planted their flag, whether it is British or Yankee, 
you see Christianity and progress, but the Boers and the 
Filipinos are determined that they would rather die than 
stand such oppression and injustice; they have defied with 
a courage that is almost unexampled in the history of the 
world, the forces of Great Britain and America respec- 
tively. It may be the most diabolical instance of rapacity, 
of tyranny and usurpation ever known in the history of 
the world, but these are cases where the two great Anglo- 
Saxon races must show to the world that their authority 
shall not be questioned by the likes of Aguinaldo and Paul 
Kruger. 

U. S. — Do you ever expect the United States military 
authorities in the Philippine Islands will capture Aguin- 
aldo? 



BRIBERY AND REPUDIATION. 



McK. — Aguinaldo is as slippery as an eel, now you 
have him and now you havn't. The 2nd Battalion chased 
him all over the northern part of the island of Luzon for 
three months and after spending $1,000,000 trying to 
locate him we had to give it up. Aguinaldo would be one 
place one day and another the next, and we could not 
catch him, but Gen. Otis, with four regiments of volun- 
teers, a thousand cavalry and two large batteries has 
captured his wife and baby. 

U. S. — How many Pinos did Otis round up for the 
week ending April 27, 1900? 

McK. — The proceeds of the week's work in Luzon 
was 600 killed, 750 wounded, and 250 captured. In an- 
other province 80 w r ere killed and 100 wounded, while in 
North Slicas 180 were killed, 70 captured and 64 taken 
prisoners. 

U. S. — How much did General Otis allow himself in 
Mexican money in addition to the army salary ? 
McK. — $14,000 per year. 

L T . S. — What was his reason for taking this money? 

McK. — He takes it because other army officers and 
all those who take part in the island government receive 
bonuses. 

U. S. — What do Washington clerks in the Philippine 
Islands receive in the shape of bonus ? 

McK. — 400 Mexican dollars each. 

U. S. — Senator Hoar has likened Aguinaldo to 
Washington. In statescraft he likens him and his asso- 
ciates to the best minds ever produced in the Asiatic race 
— a race which handed down to us the "Scriptures of the 
Old and New Testaments, the Poetry of David, the elo- 
quence of Isaiah, the Wisdom of Solomon, and the phil- 
osophy of Paul." Have any of your political friends and 
Republican senators ever paid you such tribute? 

McK. — I never expect to get any tribute of that cali- 
ber from Senator Hoar; he would liken me to Nero, 
Pharoah, or the Sultan of Turkey. 

L T . S. — Mr. Hoar declares that Aguinaldo is brave, 
honest and patriotic, and that he and the small band which 
has given life and everything dearer than life in a losing 



i4-o McKINLEY IN THE WITNESS BOX. 




The St* Louts Platform of to-day. 



John E. Jones, a Washington Newspaper reporter, 
has been drawing $1,700 per year as local physician to 
the Washington city Post-office. 



McKinley has given the North American Trust Co. 
the banking monoply of Havana. 



A coming event. — FOR SALE. McKinley' s harem 
in Jolo. Apply to W. J. Bryan, Washington, D. C. 



The Steel Trust made more money, in 1899, than all 
the farmers in Kansas and Nebraska combined. 



M. A. Hanna member of Coal Trust, Iron Trust, Steel 
Trust, Towing Trust, Banking Trust and Railway Trust. 
Owner and dealer in National, State and Municipal 
Franchises. 

The Post-Office Department puts on 5,000 extra 
McKinley workers. Each City will receive extra Clerks 
and Carriers until after election. Hanna's own city, 
Cleveland, receives 20 additional Carriers and 9 extra 
Clerks. 



PILLAGE AND PLUNDER. 



141 



cause, deserve the sympathy of the world. That the 
United States had made them their allies and were in duty 
bound to recognize their independence and that they had 
proved themselves lit for independence and capable of 
self-government, that the state papers of Aguinaldo fur- 
nishing the discussion of the laws of nations by his attor- 
ney-general; are products of a great mind. When such 
statements as this come from a man of such unquestion- 
able ability as Senator Hoar, how can you, a weak-minded 
tool of Mark Hanna and his trusts, have the audacity to 
say that such is not the case ? 

McK. — What Mr. Hoar says may be true but it is 
not for him to decide what we shall do in those islands. 

U. S. — Mr. Hoar declares that the Filipinos are not 
responsible for the present war. He fully justifies their 
action in resisting the American forces. What have you 
to say to this, coming from a Republican senator ? 

McK. — Great heads always differ. 

U. S. — What two great heads do you refer to? 

McK.— Hoar's and Hanna's. 

U. S. — -Through Mark Hanna you have the entire re- 
sponsibility and the management of the governments of 
the Philippine Islands, Cuba,- and Porto Rico on your own 
hands. 

McK.— I have. 

U. S. — You make all the appointments, dictate as to 
the amount of money that shall be squandered on each 
island. The people under you on these islands get fat sal- 
aries, pay big prices for everything, get bonuses, make 
contracts, grant franchises, buy large supplies for the 
army, grant special favors to special people, and in fact do 
business something on the same principle as followed by 
Napoleon, Solomon, David and the present Czar of Rus- 
sia. Is it any wonder that members of your party are 
boasting of the fact that the administration will spend 
$50,000,000 to re-elect you if that amount is needed? 

McK— No, sir. 

U. S. — It is claimed that the administration has sold 
to Mr. Van Horn, late of the Canadian Pacific Railroad, 
the entire rights and privileges to operate railroads in 
Cuba. Knowing as you do that railroads are great op- 



i 4 2 McKIXLEY IN THE WITNESS BOX. 



Estimated Plundec and its Distribution 
Among the Larger Fish. 



Telegraph and Cable Co"s 

M. A. Hanna 

Thos. Piatt 

John D. Rockefeller . , . 
Cliauncey Depew .... 
Abner Mc Kinley. Broker of PresMest) 



2,006,000 
15.000.000 
4.000.000 
5.500.000 
1.500.000 
800.000 



National Banks . . . • 345.000.000 



Penn. Svsi 
New York Central R. R. and ^SS"' 

Central Pacific . • 

The Plant System 

Transportation Companies .... 
" The Tobacco Trust 

The Sugar Trust 

The Steel Trusts . . ... ..... . 

The Iron Trusts ........ 

•The American Steel & Wire Co<. . 
Other Trusts ........... 

L'. S. ; Sena tors . . . 

U. S. Congressmen ........ 

Wm. McKinley (President) ". ' . .' 



2.000,000 

1.500.000 
750.000 
170.000 

1,500,000 

2,000,000 

2.500.000 
14.000.000 

9,500.000 

6,000,000 
71,000,000 
16,000,000 V 
13,500,000 

3,500.000 



7,300 tons of Armor 
plate will be purch- 
ased from Andrew 
Carnegie for $3 ,978,- 
500 in face of the 
fact that the same 
amount of Harvev- 
ized Armor can be 
obtained for $2,555,000. How much will 
Carnegie put up for the campaign fund? 
Harveyized Armor is not controlled by a trust. 
The so-called Krupp Armor bought of Car- 
negie is controlled by a Trust. 

British, French, German}^ and Russian 

Navy experts con- 
demn the American 
imitation of Krupp 
Armor made by the 
Trust and have re- 
fused to give it a 
trial. 




* J ( 



TrusIS iocorporeJed 



under G rove r Clevel&ndo 

e 600,000,000.00. 

underM-Kinleys 

% =rj^ evdm in hsT? etffort- — s~ 

4,000.000.000. oor^ 




DECEPTION AND NEGLECT. 



H3 



pressors of the people, why did you give this special priv- 
ilege to one corporation ? 

McK. — Mr. Van Horn is an experienced railroad 




Davenport's idea of what a White House Reception 
may come to. 



man and in my judgment was well qualified to look after 
the needs of the Cubans in this respect. 



i 4 4 McKINLEY IN THE WITNESS BOX. 




What do you think of a government that will pay 
7 cts. per mile to the Railroads for the transportation 
of its soldiers? 

McArthur has appealed for more troops for the 
Philipinnes. 

SCANDALOUS. 

McKinley collected S16,316,590 from the Cubans 
last year, and has only accounted for $7,421,719. It 
cost $1 to collect $4 in taxes, from the Cubans. 

Rathbone spent $612,290 of the peoples money 
while in Cuba. Items like $31,000 for printing, and 
$49,000 for miscellaneous expenses, appear in his 
accounts. 



c c 3 c 6 >'■ 



FRAUD AND CONSPIRACY! 145 

U. S. — It is charged that you were willing and did 
make political capital out of the Hepburn bill; is this 
true ? 

McK. — I withdrew the administration's objection 




How the Republicans Sympathized with the Boees. 



and laid over the consideration of the Hepburn bill at this 
session for political purposes. 



146 Mckinley in the witness box. 



THE PHILADELPHIA FIASCO 
, , . _ 

Every plank in the Philadelphia Platform was sawed 
out by the Trusts and their agents to deceive the farmer 
and the laboring man. 

As a matter of business and politics they denounced 
Trusts in face of the fact that their Congress enacted six 
laws to promote their interests. 

They renewed their claims for protection to the Ameri- 
can laboring men, but forgot to mention the fact that they 
had invited to compete with them 10,000,000 of the cheap- 
est laborers on earth and reduced the number of laborers 
required by harboring Trusts, closing mills and limiting 
production. 

The}^ talked about delivering mail free to farmers out 
of a fund that does not exist. The postal deficit in 1899 
reached into the tens of millions. 

They upheld the Civil Service in our new Possessions 
where it does not and never will exist as long as spoil poli- 
ticians control our affairs. 

To 10,000,000 of the humati race (they say) has been 
given a new birth of freedom. Where is the freedom in hav- 
10,000,000 people governed by one man, a foreigner and a 
tool of foreign capitalists at that. 

They stated that the excess of exports over imports 
under McKinley's administration were $1,483,537,094-. 
This statement is a lie. It included the supplies sent to 
Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines to feed, cloth and fur- 
nish McKinley's army. It included the money exported to 
the Governor General of the Philippine Islands to buy Aus- 
tralian beef and available supplies in the Orient and it in- 
cluded the $817,700,000 exported to England as profit to 
English Capitalists on American investments. These Re- 
publican exports are not to be classed as true exports for 
they are of no value, and moreover a detriment to the toil- 
ing and producing masses of America. 

Not one plank in the St. Louis platform has been up- 
held by the Republicans and it goes without saying the 
Philadelphia platform will meet the same fate. 



DEATH AND MURDER. 



147 



U. S. — Who are the people that are behind Mr. Van 
Horn in his Cuban railway scheme? 

McK. — Pierpont Morgan, Rockefeller, Flagler, Mc- ' 
Kay, Mills, Thomas, Dodge and others. 

U. S. — Do you think the Cubans will ever get any 
justice in freight rates from this aggregation of fortune 
hunters ? 

McK. — That remains to be seen. 




McKinley Allows the Standard to Deliberately Steal 
$20,000,00.0. 

U. S. — Is it a fact, Mr. McKinley, that these very 
men and others have a monopoly on coal, lumber, and al- 
most everything else on the island of a profitable nature? 

McK. — They have controlling interests in Havanna 
street railways, and have purchased thousands of acres of 
mahogany and cedar timber, further than this I cannot 
say. The railway privilege will, of course, give them an 
opportunity to set their ow T n prices on coal and other ne- 
cessities. 



Mckinley in the witness box. 



ROOSEVELT 

A SAD DISAPPOINTMENT. 

Gov.Roosevelt has been a disappointment all around 
— no doubt to himself. He was elected by only 17,000 
plurality, at the very height of his military prestige 

His military record however, will reflect very much 
against him this fall, as the charges of "being a quitter" 
preferred against him by Col. Bacon have not nor can- 
not be denied by Roosevelt or his friends. 

How poor Gov. Roosevelt has kept his promise the 
people of the state know fully well. New York has never 
had a more thoroughly and narrowly partisan Gover- 
nor than he. It has never before had a Governor who 
made weekly pilgrimages to New York to 4 'consult" with 
his party's boss. As the Boston Herald puts it: "Roose- 
velt in practice turns his back upon his teachings. The 
Boss is not to be assailed. He is to be conciliated and 
deferred to. Roosevelt does not even ask Piatt to come 
to him ; he goes to Piatt." 

But this is not the worst. Gov. Roosevelt's failure 
to punish or even to prosecute the canal thieves; his 
suppressions of the report of his special examination in 
the State Trust Company scandal when the discovery 
was made that his friend Elihu Root was responsible for 
the unlawful loans of that institution; his signing of the 
appraisers' bill to make places for a lot of Piatt's hench- 
men who were out of a job — these and other delinquen- 
cies have made up an issue on which the Democrats can 
carry the state. 

It must be remembered that while New York is a 
pendulum state, swinging now to one side and now to 
the other, it is also a pivotal state— for the electoral vote 
of New 7 York and of the three states that naturally vote 
with it in national elections has been given to and has 
been essential to the election of every successful candi- 
date for President, Democrat or Republican, since 1876. 

It is the duty of every liberty loving citizen in the 
Empire State, to do his utmost from now until the sun 
goes down on the 6th day of November, to bring back 
to the toiling and producing millions, the freedom of 
our earlv days that has been taken from us by four years 
of conspiracy. 

fi.*s»iui* :mi:.'-'»:iU' •:»%*.••'•"'•*« •:#'.* •.'•"?•*:*••"•: •:•"*•":"•"•'•: '•"•*•: .'•"•* •*;*•"•"•' 



MILLIONAIRES AND MONEY GODS. 149 



U. S. — A few months ago you were in favor of giv- 
ing the Porto Ricans equal trade privileges with the 
United States : why is it you changed your mind ? 

McK. — I surrendered to the sugar trust. 

U. S. — Who requested a 15 per cent tariff and how 
did you smooth things over with the public and the citi- 
zens of Porto Rico? 

McK. — I gave the Porto Rican Commission $2,095,- 
000 to spend in public improvements and that smoothed 
things over with them. „ Then I turned around and told 
the American public that as I had given the Porto Ricans 
this two million dollars that it would be perfectly proper 
for us to charge them 15 per cent on their exports, by so 
doing I satisfied all parties concerned and made the sugar 
trust a present of four or five million dollars per annum 
for their suggestions in the matter. 

U. S. — How is it that as the citizens of Porto Rico 
are American citizens that your conscience would allow 
you to discriminate against them ? 

McK. — When I came to Washington Mr. Hanna re- 
quested me to leave my conscience in Canton. 

U. S. — Are you acquainted with the circumstances 
by which Mark Hanna broke up the Seamens' Union of 
the Great Lakes and lowered the w r ages of the sailors 
from $15 to $30 per month? 

McK. — I knew the circumstances at one time but just 
at present they are not very clear to me. If my memory 
serves me correctly Mr. Hanna had at that time a large 
number of boats. During the winter months he sent his 
different agents to 1 the large lake ports with instructions to 
charter every available boat for the next season and also 
to contract for the transportation of coal, ore, grain and 
merchandise and everything that they possibly could 
with the understanding that the same should be shipped as 
early in the coming season as possible. Navigation 
opened early the next spring, Mr. Hanna having the en- 
tire traffic of the great lakes practically in his own hands. 
On the first of August five-sixths of the available cargoes 
of that season had been carried to their destination. The 
charter of the boats Mr. Hanna had obtained from the lit- 
tle shippers and private vessel owners ran out about this 



150 Mckinley in the witness box. 




Wiienwhe&Tte scarce 
)T*is h'(]h in price. 
When money 16 6C6ixe 
fisf]ic|h ir| price. 
The price of kbor 

decreases &$ft\e price 
of money increases. 



Was it 
McKinleyism 

or Republicanism that 
raised the price of 
wheat in 1897 and 
made the condition of 
the farmers, and with 
them the entire coun- 
try, more prosperous? 



jVO! 

It was the failure of the Wheat crop in India, 
Russia and Argentine Republic. If Bryan had 
been elected the same 

results would have ; " 

followed. It is sup- * 
ply and demand, Prices &re m5.de. 

not political parties, W $y ^ rektfVe qu&nffiy of 

price oTwheat. " Jfft R ^'^ produce or kbor 

r in% m&rkefir] search 
of N|or]ey <Mid of money 
|ifl tfje nwketin se&rcf) 
of ReoJ C5Tfi3e f produce widl^bop. 




CRIME AND PERSECUTION. 



time. This condition of affairs brought about by Mr. 
Hanna presented a splendid opportunity for a cut in 
wages, and the largest part of the business for that sea- 
son having been disposed of Mr. Hanna cut the price of 
wages, and stated to those shippers who most opposed 
him that if they would assist him to win the strike, while 
they had but a small quantity of cargoes to ship, that next 
year the reduction in price would still hold good and they 
themselves would profit as well as himself because the 
lowering of the sailors' wages would place him in a posi- 
tion where he and others could take their cargoes out at 
reduced- rates. The fight of the Seamen's Union was one 
of the hardest fought battles between capital and labor 
that this or any other country ever witnessed. Mr. Hanna 
having accumulated a large amount of money, was 
placed in a position where he could hold out 
and fight to the bitter end, which he did. It is 
needless to say that he won, and from that date to this, 
thousands of seamen on the Great Lakes, which are frozen 
up five months in the year, have obtained barely enough 
money during the season of navigation to support them- 
selves and their families, while if the strike had never 
been brought on by Mr. Hanna, and the wages had re- 
mained the same as in previous years the wives and chil- 
dren of these sailors would have had plenty to warm them 
and feed them during the cold, bitter months of winter. 

U. S. — In your estimation w r hat is the estate of Mr. 
Hanna w^orth to-day ? 

McK. — $6,000,000. 

U. S.— What was it worth four years ago? 
McK.— $2,000,000. 

U. S. — What will it be worth in 1905 if you are re- 
elected ? 0' 
McK. — I would rather not say. 

U. S. — How does Mr. Hanna make money out of 
politics ? 

McK. — To state Mr. Hanna's method of dealing with 
the favored class would be very difficult but I will give 
you an idea in a general way of how money can be made 
by political manipulation in the present status of affairs, 
beginning with rriy administration. The profit to be de- 



152 McKIXLEY IX THE WITNESS BOX. 



Farmer McKtn ley— They ought 
to do well the way I feed 
them. 





BEWARE OF WOLVES IN SHEEPS' CLOTHING ! 



The Republicans are going to tell you this 
fall that they wanted a law passed to regulate 
the trusts. It's a lie. They simply tried to 
work a skin game on the Democrats that did 
not work. A Republican law on trusts would 
be like the Army Canteen law, which only 
resulted in a change of bar-tenders. 

McKinley was made a Major twelve years 
after the war closed. What he did in the mean- 
time to warrant the appointment, will always 
remain a mystery. 



Xot a single war tax has been abated. 



TREACHERY 



*53 



rived by the bankers from the continuance of the gold 
standard for four years would not be less than three hun- 
dred millions of dollars. As I stated, when I was in 
favor of the free and unlimited coinage of silver, the 
scarcity of money like the scarcity in wheat, raises the 
price of money. Now, if we had Bryanism and more 
money thrown on the market, money would have been 
cheaper and a man worth five million dollars under 
Bryanism would only be worth four million under Mc- 
Kinleyism, The loss of this million dollars being divided 
up between the farming and laboring classes. Of course 




the administration leaders advised me to increase the 
amount of money in circulation in order to make times 
better and fulfill the prophesy made to them that I was 
"The Advance Agent of Prosperity." It was not neces- 
sary however for congress to increase the amount of 
money in circulation to any great extent in 1897 and 1898 
because wheat production was a failure in other countries. 
The large amount of wheat exported by the United States 
in those years together with a high price caused by failure 
of crops in other countries, threw millions of dollars into 



i54 Mckinley in the witness box. 




'd liere lie ll]e bodies of 10,000 
of our recognized Aflies who 
were kii led starved &nd 
murdered bylfje Plain Duty 
puppef&nd tool of 
tfje Trusts. 



They were made our equal 
on the shores of the lake of 
Galilee by the Savior of man- 
kind when he said "In the. 
eyes of God all men are equal. " 



They were made our vassals 

Uon the banks of the River 
^ Potomac by the President of 
.v^'ft I the United States when he 
| v -jj sa ^ "We will stand no use- 
^V'<L=? less parley." ("Shoot them.") 





It costs $18,000,000 more to run the Navy 
this year, than jt did in 1898 when we where 
at war with Spain. 

Before election. The pensions have been 
increased this year to $150,000,000. 

$111,000,000 will be thrown away this year 
on the army. This would pay the running 
expenses of 18 States. 

Statistics prove that the United States has 
had more paupers under McKinley than 
under Cleveland's two administrations. 

The Jack Ass of the Republican party is 
Senator Beverage, of Indiana. Gov. Mount, 
of Indiana, is a relative to Beverage. 

It costs Emperor William, of Canton, more 
to support his army of 100,000 than .it does 
Emperor William, of Germany, his army of 
over 500,000. 




KM j 



BLOODSHED. 



'55 



circulation, and thus assisted the Republican party in 
bearing out their assertion that times would be better un- 
der my administration. In addition to this war with 
Spain was declared, two hundred million dollars worth of 
bonds were issued. This amount was largely distributed 
in the the United States through the purchase of provis- 
ions, arms, ammunition, in paying salaries to one hun- 
dred thousand soldiers, and in wages to that many more 
laboring men. When we made the war loan of two hun- 
dred million, we knew that the bonds, instead of being 
worth dollar for dollar, would be worth $1.06 or $1.08. 



Brothers, Thieves and Robbers: 

In 1896 the Sugar Trust subscribed and 
paid $1,000,000 to the Republican Campaign 
Committee. In 1897 as a grateful recollection 
of the Million-Dollar Donation the Dingley 
Tariff Bill was passed. Immediately there- 
after the Sugar Trust raised the price of sugar 
1 cent per pound which increased their profits 
over $2,000,000 the first year. 



IN OTHER WORDS 
Brother McKinley of. the Methodist Church 
and Brother Havemeyer of the Presbyterian 
Church deliberately robbed their fellow citizens 
of $7,000,000, and now they have the impu- 
dence and audacity to ask for four years more 
time in which to make it in round numbers, 
$15,000,000. 

In the meantime Brother Rockefeller of 
the Baptist Church, has been making Oil for 
1% cents and selling it at 10 cents, clearing 
$20,000,000 quarterly, according to the trusts 
own Report. 

If you have ever cast a vote for these 
Wolves in Sheeps Clothing in the Name of 
God and Justice can you ever cast another ? 




We sold them at par and manipulated affairs in such a way 
that certain parties made from twelve to sixteen million 
dollars out of the loan. Large army contracts had to be 
made, certain privileged parties were given these con- 
tracts, and thousands of dollars in rebates were paid. 
Transports had to be purchased, and the people could see 
that under the circumstances we needed them at once. 
This gave us an opportunity to pay large prices and to get 
a rakeoff from these, both on the Atlantic and Pacific. 
Army camps had to be located. These camps were located 
at such points where railroads running to the camps 
would be willing to give us large rebates for the transpor- 



156 McKINLEY IN THE WITNESS BOX. 

Farmers and Dairymen, BEWARE! 

The Republicans are going to tell you this fall that they have 
put a tax on Oleomargarine of ten cents per pound. It is a lie. 
The tax is only one-fourth of one cent, per pound. The tax 
often cents per pound is on colored imitations of butter of which 
there is but one pound sold to 177 pounds of Oleomargarine. 



Our Imperial Huckster is Monarch of lands he will never sur- 
vey. 

Ill can he rule who can not RULE HIMSELF. 

Unnecessary taxation is unjust taxation. 

McKinlev's man Rathbone expended tens of thousands of 
dollars in furnishing a palace and in purveying music and other 
accessories of flamboyant displav. The reports are quite in keep- 
ing with intimations that have been made, and need cause no 



s e. 




LITLLE WILLIE DOESN' T DARE TO STOP. 



MONOPOLIES AND FRANCHISES. 157 



tation of troops. After a certain regiment had remained 
at a certain camp for, say one month, we would send an 
investigating committee down there, who would claim 
that the camp was not in sanitary quarters. We would 
then move the entire regiment with all its supplies and 
stores seven or eight hundred miles, as we did, for in- 
stance, when we moved the camp from Alabama to Fer- 
nandena. This increased railroad bills and rebates. 
Clothing had to be purchased for the troops in a hurry, 
ships had to be chartered from private individuals as we 
did not have enough of our own; these things, like many 
others, gave opportunities for plunder and pillage. We 
sent fifteen or twenty thousand troops to Cuba, giving the 
officers in charge large amounts of money for what sup- 
plies they could purchase there; this gave other oppor- 
tunities for rebates. We also let a big contract for gov- 
ernment meat in Chicago, we paid a big price for meat 
which was of inferior quality, the people here discovered 
our plot. I appointed a meat investigating committee, 
made their decision myself and got out of the trouble as 
easy as possible. In order to smooth the troubled waters 
and quiet the American public, we made a deal with Alger 
whereby we blamed everything on him and kicked him out 
of the cabinet, paying him a large amount to keep mum. 

The navy had to be increased, large amounts of 
stores purchased for them, boats purchased, as dispatch 
boats, torpedo boats, cutters, etc., these all had to be sup- 
plied with guns and ammunition. The officers had to be 
supplied with large amounts of pocket money in case of 
emergency,' and this gave us another opportunity for re- 
bates and rakeoffs. When we took Porto Rico we found 
it in bad shape, we put an army over there which had to 
be clothed and fed. We gave the governor of Porto Rico 
$2,095,000 for public improvements, but what the rakeoff 
will be on this I cannot say at present. 

Our first war w r as just and was a great success from 
the standpoint of plunder and pillage. This gave us the 
war fever and Commodore Dewey having destroyed Mon- 
te jo's fleet in Manila bay and the Filipinos being in a state 
of revolution, this gave us an excellent opportunity for 
more pillage and more plunder. 



158 Mckinley in the witness box. 




WHAT THE NATIONS PAY FOR ARMOR PLATE 



France , $350.00 per ton 

Germany 290.00 

Russia 260.00 

Italy ,. 300.00 

Great Britain 410.00 

United States 545.00 

The American people are not likely to for- 
get that Porto Rico is forced by the trust ad- 
ministration to submit to taxation without 
representation, and yet become a part of a 
government that wouldn't. 



The embezzlement of Public Funds in Cuba 
exceeds anything the Spainards were ever 
accused of. 




TYRANNY AND BARBARISM. 



Having sized up United States congress and feeling 
that it would be impossible for us to obtain the consent of 
that body to officially declare war against the inhabitants 
of the Philippine Islands, Mr. Hanna, his advisers and 
myself decided we would have another war in spite of 
them. I was instructed to manipulate affairs in a certain 
wav whereby it would appear to the American public and 
to the world at large that I was at least partially obliged 
to compel the Filipinos to lay down their arms. We 
knew, however, that they had been fighting for their lib- 
erty for three hundred years and that for this reason alone 
they would be, upon release from the Spanish yoke, un- 
willing to bear the burden of an American yoke; this 
started another war. Transports had to be bought on the 
Pacific. A large number of men had to be put into the 
field. Flour, tobacco and supplies had to be purchased 
which pleased the trusts, this gave us an opportunit} r for 
large rakeoffs and rebates from other large contracts. In 
fact, in the Philippine war we made purchases from at 
least thirty-seven different trusts. General Otis had to be 
supplied with two or three million dollars' worth of sup- 
plies a week. Twenty thousand horses and mules had to 
be purchased and transported. Otis was given about a 
million dollars a week to buy Australian beef and other 
supplies available in the Pacific; all these things with 
many others offered grand opportunities for the raising 
of corruption funds. We instructed our representatives 
in Porto Rico, Cuba, and the Philippines to encourage all 
parties to buy franchises and monopolies, the sale of 
which, are a great source of remuneration. 

The sugar trust came along one day and asked us to 
put a 15 per cent tariff* on sugar, we demanded the price 
and got it; what our future policy will be in regard to 
franchises and monopolies in the various cities, towns 
and provinces of our new possessions and the tariff regu- 
lations between the mother country and the colonies is as 
yet a subject for speculation. We will merely wait for 
the highest bidders. 

We favored the national banks by giving them gov- 
ernment funds to use without interest under the pretext 
of making subtreasuries out of the bank. The banks 



160 McKIXLEY IX THE WITNESS BOX. 



IN THE SPRING OF 1897 

Not anticipating a large exportation of wheat at a high 
figure or the natural results of a war with a foreign coun- 
try, the Republicans threw over $300,000,000 worth of 
silver on the market in order to hold good their promise, 
that McKinley was the advance agent of prosperity. Is 
this not positive proof that Bryan's financial policv is good 
when the Republicans will decry it and follow it at the 
same time? 

When a man at the head of a great public department 
devotes his attention to almost anything except his official 
duties, then incompetency and dishonesty may be expected 
to run riot in that department. Postmaster General Smith 
is such a man. While he has been running around the 
country expounding all the politics of the President, defend- 
ing the Porto Rico tariff, and making war on the Repub- 
lican organization in his own state, the Postoffice Depart- 
ment has been without the supervision which he should 
have given it. To Mr. Smith's neglect of his offi- 
cial duties must pe attributed the fact that Neely's opera- 
tions were so long undetected. To his neglect may be as- 
cribed also the scandals in the Washington postoffice and 
the existence of similar malfeasance in Porto Rico. 




BLUNDERS AND EXTRAVAGANCE. 161 



loaned out this money, making big interest on it, thus 
giving us another opportunity for pillage and plunder. 
Four billion dollars' worth of trusts have sprung up under 
our administration, all of which desire us to sap the blood 
from the common people. We do this wherever it is prac- 
tical, upon the dividend al plan. 

The inside facts in regard to these matters are often 
very complicated and in other cases very simple. There 
are certain things the details of which Mr. Hanna informs 
me while in others I am often not considered, but a gen- 
eral estimation of the profits to the favored classes from 
four years of my administration w T ould not be less than 
eight or nine hundred million dollars, while if I am al- 
lowed another lease of four years' time, the amount 
cleared up by Hanna and his. associates may reach one 
billion dollars. In addition to these large profits the war 
had given us an opportunity to heal the gaping wounds 
of thousands of sore-headed politicians and would-be- 
office-seekers. 

It has given us an opportunity to employ a large num- 
ber of officers and men at large salaries who will always 
be supporters of our administration. It has also put us 
on the right side of at least five hundred contractors. It 
has also created for us 50,000 votes which were taken 
from the Democratic ranks, because the officers and sail- 
ors in the navy and the officers and soldiers in the army 
hear but one side of the question and that is the Repub- 
lican side. 

U. S. — Do you know anything about how Mr. Hanna 
made three million dollars out of a coal deal and lowered 
the wages of miners at the same time ? 

McK. — The facts of the case are these: Mr. Hanna, 
like a cat watches a mouse, kept his eye on the available 
supply of coal. One day the time was ripe for him to cor- 
ner the coal market and he did it. At the various lake 
docks, at Pittsburgh, at Wheeling, at Louisville and var- 
ious other coaling depots throughout the country, the sup- 
ply got low and Hanna saw it. He dispatched his agents 
to coal mines all over the country with instructions to 
lease the same, also to make special arrangements with 
those coal operators who did not care to lease their mines, 



Mckinley in the witness box. 




McKinley is repairing the $3, 000,000 military road 
he bought for the people. He is paying the Porto Ricans 
that are working on it 3c. per hour. 

With the trusts regulating production and the 
banks regulating the volume and dictating the kind of 
currency, His Majesty is having things pretty much his 
own way. 

The administration spent $60,000 of the peoples 
money entertaining our Lying General at Rochester. 
Otis will be a great man until after election. 



MONOPOLIES AND FRANCHISES. 163 



that they should pay a certain price per ton to the min- 
ers. Mr. Hanna worked all the mines that fell to him 
through his marriage, all the mines he had pur- 
chased himself and all the mines his representatives 
had leased, to their full capacity. The profits on 
coal were good all this time, but Hanna did not sell. Later 
on he worked these mines night and day, accumulating 
along the Ohio river at the various coaling points thous- 
ands and thousands of bushels of coal. At the various 
lake ports he had thousands of tons. The miners were 
still at work, but Hanna did not sell. As the price of coal 
kept steadily advancing the other mine operators smelt a 
rat, but they were powerless in the hands of the mighty 
Hanna. 




One day a bundle of telegrams were sent to his fore- 
men at each mine, instructing them to cut the wages of 
miners to the lowest possible notch. This threw every 
miner in the mines operated by Hanna into a strike. The 
miners operating mines of other coal companies naturally 
struck in sympathy and a panic ensued. The blast fur- 
naces, the tin mills, the glass factories, the railroads, the 
steamboats and manufacturing plants all over the country 
were short of coal, and none had coal but Hanna. 



McKINLEY IN THE WITNESS BOX. 



Country. Population. Official Salaries. 

Prussia 32,000.000 3,100.000 

Spain 17,500.000 .2,040.000 

Italy .-0,000.000 2,920.000 

Austria-Hungary 42,000.000 3,538.000 

Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Sweeden, Netherlands, Port- 
ugal, Roumania, Saxony and Servia combined 3,280.000 
Cuba 1,400.000 4,000.000 

Ratbbone's fiigb tmm. 

Many stories have been told of the Rathbone 
establishment. Shortly after he went there Rath- 
bone moved into a mansion. He had fountains 
playing in the yards. He had horses and livery, 
lavish entertainments, expensive concerts and musi- 
cales at which the most renowmed bands and orches- 
tras in the island were engaged. When he assumed 
office at Havana, Major Rathbone fitted out in the 
most lavish style a suite of offices for himself in one 
of the public buildings. It co*t the Cubans nearly 
$5,000 for the decoration and furnishing of these 
offices. Surrounding his home were the most ex- 
pensive and luxuriant tropical plants. Every ^> 
modern convenience was supplied him. The Cubans 
paid the bills. 



GOLD MINING PRIVILEGES, GIVEN AWAY | 

To say that the special Gold mining conces- 
sions granted to Cape Nome fortune seekers, 
by Secretary of War Root, were granted with- 
out a money consideration, is equivalent to ^ 
denying the existance of human nature. 

Hanna and McKinley are working over 
time trying to cover up colonial rottenness. 



McKinley' s friends, if he has any, should 
make it their mission to bring him back to * 
earth again. 



INTIMIDATION. 165 

The leases of the mines that Hanna obtained from 
other parties were about to expire, and Hanna did not care 

KER-CHUNCK! 




McKinley — "What's that noise, Mark." 
Hanna — ' 'Hush Bill ! It sounds like the solid South- 
west and North voting for Bryan and Stevenson. 



how soon. The other mine owners desired a settlement 
of affairs, but Hanna would not settle. The wives and 



166 McKINLEY IN THE WITNESS BOX. 




For a first-class sham and fraud, the 
Industrial Commission is second to none. 

William McKinley, alias. President 
of the United States. 

European dailies claim that the pre- 
sent American Govermental System is 
honey-combed with fraud. 

Ex-attorney General, Frank Monnett 
of Ohio, (Republican) claims Hanna and 
McKinley cannot carry their own State. 

All mail consigned to the traveling 
Governor of Kentucky, should be ad- 
dressed to W. S. Taylor. 
Anywhere En route, 
but Kentucky. 

Hanna, in his excitement said. k, God 
gave us the Philippines." Poor Mark — 
how does he know ? 

The quicker we get out of Cuba, the 
better it will be^for McKinley. 




A corker — McKinley's war record. 




BROKEN PLEDGES AND DEGENERATION. 167 



children of miners to the number of 50,000 or 60,000 were 
left with barely the staff of life. The price of coal kept 
going up all the time. Hanna shortly afterwards sold out 
when he saw it was not advisable for him to hold out any 
longer, at a profit of $3,000,000. But still the strike 
against the struggling miners continued until they were 
forced to give up to save their families from starvation. 

U. S. — Is this the kind of man, Mr. McKinley, that 
you have chosen as your manager and political adviser? 
O, where is your love for the laboring man? 

McK. — I answered this question once before and can- 
not answer it again. 

U. S. — Is Mark Hanna a member of the iron trust? 

McK. — He is. 

U. S. — Is he a member of the steel trust? 
McK.— Yes. 

U. S. — Is he a member of the wire trust? 
McK.— Yes. 

U. S. — Why is it you associate with a man that goes 
into combines of all descriptions to sap the legitimate 
profits of labor? 

McK. — Because he is powerful. 

U. S. — Why is it that you are always talking about 
your "plain duty" when your duty is so plain that a child 
could follow it? 

McK. — It pleases my followers and has a soothing 
effect upon those religiously inclined. 

U. S. — I suppose your "God and destiny and Provi- 
dence of God theories" are used for the same purpose ? 

McK.— They are. 

U. S.— What kind of censorship have you at Manila? 

McK. — In every instance where the suppression of 
the truth will be of advantage to my administration, the 
censor is instructed to withhold it. 

U. S. — Has Otis made any mistakes? 

McK. — He has made some. 

U. S. — Why is it that we do not hear of his mistakes ? 

McK. — Because it would damage the party. 

U. S. — Have you ever made any blunders yourself? 



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CUBAN RAILROAD SCANDAL. 



There are revelations about the military railroad which was built by con- 
tract around the city of Havana, for the alleged purpose of facilitating the 
movement of troops. 

This railroad cost $110,000, and was billed to the McKinley government at 
$342,611. The extra eleven dollars were tacked on doubtless to show the exact 
and accurate method which was used in estimating the cost. 

An interesting question in this matter, is, who got the difference between 
the actual cost of this road and the sum paid for it by the government. 

It is not likely that any answer will be found to this inquiry, for McKinley 
and Hanna are extremely anxious to smother all investigation, and are doing all 
they can to smother the postal scandal. 

But there is a rich field for inquiry as to corruption in the Philippines. In 
an order just come to light, issued November 18, 1899. General Otis says, "that 
alleged cases of bribe-taking, of the acceptance of gifts from inferiors; and of 
like misconduct bv persons holding positions in the military or civil service have 
of late been brought to the attention of this headquarters." General Otis added 
that he was "constrained to the belief that these reports, which are in the nature 
of general complaints, have a more or less substantial foundaton." 

But Otis came home, leaving the matter as he found it, and the bribe- 
takers and givers will be left unmolested so long as McKinley remains in power. 



FRAUD AND CONSPIRACY. 169 



McK. — I have, but the administration will not admit it. 

U. S. — Is it not a fact that in the early part of 1896 
members of corporations subsidized a number of the great 
metropolitan dailies in order to throw public sympathy in 
favor of the gold standard? 

McK. — At least twenty of them were influenced for 
that purpose. 

U. S. — Did you go to war with Spain on a business 
basis or under a cloak of humanity. 
McK.— Both. 

U. S. — Are there anv lies on the military records? 
McK.— Yes. 

U. S. — What was the report of the French naval offi- 
cers to their government regarding the damage inflicted 
on Morro Castle by Admiral Sampson ? 

McK.— That no damage of any importance was in- 
flicted. 

U. S. — Why is it that you did not censure Admiral 
Sampson for informing Secretary Long that he had blown 
Morro Castle to the four winds of heaven ? 

McK. — That would be a boom for Schley, who is a 
Democrat, and it would reflect upon the administration, 
which has wrongfully upheld Sampson. 

U. S. — What are the three principal parts of the Re- 
publican party ? 

McK. — Piety, plunder and politics. 

U. S. — How many government stenographers did 
Otis have in the Philippine Islands ? 

McK. — One hundred and twenty-five. 

U. S. — How many government clerks? 

McK. — Three hundred and fifty. 

U. S. — How many army officers had he with him? 

McK.---Seven hundred and fifty. 

U. S. — How many American soldiers had he under 
his command? 

McK. — Sixty thousand. 

U. S. — If Mr. Bryan's followers had spent the same 
amount of money upon him in the fall of 1896 as the Re- 
publican party spent on you, where would you have been 
now? 

McK.— Practicing law in Canton, Ohio. 



ijo Mckinley in the witness box. 




MARK and MAC. 



The President — tk Mark, you have honored yourself 
and your State, in the Senate ; but did we not com- 
mit a small wrong in ousting old John Sherman? " 

Hanna — ''That may be a woman's view of it, but I had 
to hail from somewhere. I suppose you think I 
should have come from Indian Territory? " 

The President — ''That's right, Mark : you are always 
logical." 



SCANDAL AND EXPENSE. 



171 



U. S. — What is your definition of a rebel ? 

McK. — A rebel is a poor man who refuses to do what 
a rich man tells him to do. 

U. S. — Did you learn this definition when you went 
to school ? 

McK. — No, 1 learned it here at Washington. 

U. S. — If you really desired to secure peace with 
Aguinaldo, as you said, you did, why is it that you did not 
submit your dispute to arbitration ? 

McK. — Because in this case it would have been im- 
possible for m& to appoint the arbitration committee my- 
self and I would have had no guarantee as to what de- 
cision the arbitration committee would have arrived at. 

U. S. — When you said to Aguinaldo, you must sub- 
mit yourself and your people to my authority and dicta- 
tion or take the consequences, what consequences did. you 
mean? 

McK.— Death. 

U. S. — Do you think that in your civil capacity you 
have a lawful right to employ the American army to sup- 
press a rebellion in a country over which you have no 
jurisdiction? 

McK. — As I have said before, "might makes right" 
in cases where spoils can be obtained by the exercise of 
strength. 

U. S. — Are vou a gentleman? 

McK.— Yes." 

U. S. — Well, why w r as it that you did not send your 
carriage to the depot to meet Agoncilo, the representative 
of the struggling Filipinos, and bring him to the White 
House ? 

McK. — It would have been bad politics. 

U. S. — What would Mr. Lincoln have done had he 
been President when Agoncilo desired a conference with 
him? 

McK. — He would have brought Agoncilo to the 
White House in his carriage, asked him to sit down and 
make himself at home, and tell him all about the Filipinos ; 
he w r ould have stated to Agoncilo that the Americans were 
the friends of the Filipinos, that we w r ere glad Dewey 
went there, that he and his countrymen had had a bad 



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LOOK AT THESE FIGURES. 

The Per Capita Expenses of Our National Government. 

In 1830 they were $1.30. In 1860 they were $1.89. 

In 1890 they were $2.15. In 1899 they were $10.00. 

forevery man, woman and child inihe United States. Do 
you see any prospect of improvement in the future? We 
are hoarding a great surplus in the treasury and main- 
taining excessive vvar taxes for no other purpose than 
the pleasure, ''fun" and profit of spending them. 

There is a surplus in the treasury of $151, 000,000 
without counting the $ 15o,ooo,ooo gold set aside as a 
reserve fund. Of the surplus of $151, 000,000, $117,- 
000,000 is left free of interest with national banks to 
loan out at whatever rates they can get. Secretary 
Gage estimates the excess of taxes collected next year 
over expenditures — and they are on the most extrava- 
gant scale — at $82, 000, 000. And yet the war taxes are 
continued, and the chairman of the ways and means 
committee of the house, Mr. Payne, is quoted as saying 
that these taxes yield over $ loo, 000, 000 a year. 

Every penny of this money comes out of the pockets 
of the people. The masses are robbed in order that con- 
gressmen may vote subsidies to rich corporations. 

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HYPOCRISY AND INCONSISTENCY. 173 

time with those Spaniards for several hundred years, and 
that as they were the first republic to rise in Asia, that we 
would give them a helping hand. Mr. Lincoln would 
have told him to go to the cable office and wire Aguinaldo 
that the United States sent him greetings and that they 
would protect his republic against stronger nations. 

U. S. — Give us a brief history of just how you treated 
Agoncilo ? 

McK. — I refused to see him, I would not answer his 
letter, and I treated him with silent contempt. 

U. S. — When Agoncilo cabled Aguinaldo how you 
had treated him, what do you suppose were the feelings of 
Aguinaldo ? 



McK. — He knew that it foreboded evil to himself and 
his countrymen. After Aguinaldo had received this mes- 
sage he was not willing to give up in despair, but he sent 
two soldiers to pass through the American lines in further 
pursuit of peace. 

U. S. — What did the American soldiers do then? 

McK. — They began shooting. The Governor Gen- 
eral ordered that the Filipino soldiers be shot down. 

U. S. — What did you do when you heard of this 
shooting ? 




PILLAGE AND PLUNDER. 



x 75 



McK. — I sent 30,000 more soldiers to those islands to 
hunt down the Filipinos and shoot them just as the Span- 
iards did. 

U. S. — What did Spain call their commanding officer 
in those islands ? 

McK. — A Governor General. 

U. S. — What is your commanding officer? 

McK. — A Governor General. 

U. S. — Why did you buy the Spanish river gun 
boats ? 

McK. — We bought them for the same purpose that 
Spain used them for, viz., to send them up the river to 
kill the Filipinos. - 

U. S. — Is it not a fact that the American soldiers 
reluctantly obeyed the commands of their officers to shoot 
these poor people down just as the Spaniards had done 
before them? 

McK. — It has been stated to me that such was the 

case. 

U. S. — When all the people of the world, I, 400,000,- 
000 of them, can all be put in Cherry County, Nebraska, 
and each individual have 73 square feet for themselves, 
why is it that you are so engrossed in attempting to obtain 
possession of the land of others ? 

McK. — It was not me, but my managers, that brought 
about this status of circumstances. 

U. S. — Could not the money that is being squandered 
in those islands have been spent in your own country to 
better advantage? 

McK. — If the money had been expended here in ca- 
nals and public improvements, that w T ®uld have resulted 
in permanently expanding our trade at home, it would 
have been far better. It would have connected Lake 
Michigan with Lake Erie, or the Mississippi River with 
Lake Superior. If it had been expended for irrigation it 
would have made a fertile garden out of 57,000,000 acres 
of arid soil in South Dakota, Colorado and Arizona. It 
would have added millions of home owmers to our present 
population and enobled and benefited mankind without 
slaughtering precious souls. 

U. S. — If it is lawful for a nation to spend money for 



176 McKINLEY IN THE WITNESS BOX. 



POSTAL SCANDALS IN WASHINGTON, TOO. 

Oliver H. Smith, of the Washington Post Office, has 
been drawing three salaries. 

According to a report made by an expert to controller 
Robert J. Tracewell, of Indiana, the money irregularity , 
paid out for the quarter ending September 30, 1898, 
amounted to between $20,000 and $30,000. 

Six women have drawn salaries of $600 per year, 
without performing any work therefor. 

An editor of an Italian journal in Chicago, it is said, 
was allowed to charge the expenses of a long trip 
through the West Indies, amounting to over $2,000, to 
the Washington Post Office. 

It is also charged that traveling expenses of depart- 
ment officials, who were not on public business, and 
expenses for trips of private citizens only nominally con- 
nected with the service, have been paid, to the extent of 
tens of thousands of dollars, out of funds strictly belong- 
ing to the Washington Post Office, and out of the military 
postal fund. Postmaster Merritt is exonorated from any 
responsibility, as it is said he had no control over matters. 
A long list of witnesses is recommended to the Postmas- 
ter General, to aid in his investigation. It involves 
Chief Inspector Cochran of the Postoffice Department, 
Fourth Assistant Bristow, who has gone to Cuba to clear 
up the frauds there ; George W. Beavers, chief of the 
salary and allowance division, and the files of the Con- 
troller of the Treasury. 

Another story concerns the father-in-law of a high 
official in the department, who was made postmaster of a 
town near San Juan, and spent about $2,000 on a spree 
on the way there. Then he was put on the rolls as a $1,400 
clerk. Supplies, it is said, have been furnished at fancy 
prices by friends of the high officials, dead ones were car- 
ried on the rolls and everything was hushed by influence. 
Numerous other instances are alleged in which it is 
claimed officials of the office have used their influence to 
secure the allowance of irregular accounts by the auditors, 
and an inquiry is demanded. 



TRUSTS AND COMBINES. 177 



expansion of our commerce abroad, is it not lawful for the 
same nation to spend money in a war for expansion at 
home ? 

McK. — It may be lawful, but it would be impossible 
for our representatives to sell franchises and monopolies 
in our own country. There would have been less oppor- 
tunities for profit, pillage and plunder, had the money 
been expended in home expansion. 

U. S. — Where was the idea of a standing army born? 

McK. In monarchy. A war in which our citizen 
soldiers will not fight is an unjust war, but the standing 
army will fight anywhere and any place. 

U. S. — Is not this positive truth that a republic with a 
standing army, a despotic president and submissive con- 
gress is in danger? 

McK. — It is positive proof. 

U. S. — Does it pay to subjugate foreign people? 

McK. — The Romans tried it, it depleted their treas- 
ury, and Rome fell in ruins. Spain tried it and now lies 
humiliated, and an object of pity among nations. 

U. S. — That is sufficient ; the American people will 
record their verdict November 6. I can only state that 
if I were in your place I would prepare to return to 
Canton. 



SCHEMES AND^HANNAISM. 



CAMPAIGN SONGS. 



TRUSTS. 

(The man who broke the bank.) 

There's a certain crowd of men we know 

Who are buying up the earth. 

They form things they now call trusts 

To take away the poor man's crusts. 

If you ask a rich man, what's a trust? 

He's sure to answer you, my boy, 

Of course you know that they are few 

And are formed to benefit. 

But in 1900 you bet 

We are going to fight those trusts ; 

We will fight them to the wall, 

We are bound to make them fall; 

For with men of courage who won't fight shy 

We are bound in duty to make them fly ; 

There's a trust on beer, there's a trust on ale, 
There's a trust, they say, on rum, 
Theres a trust on chewing gum, 
There's a trust on making bums, 
There's a trust on spades 
And I'm afraid 

They will have a trust upon old maids, 
So what are we going to do in 1900? 

There's a trust on lumber, there's a trust on gas, 

There's a trust on boots and shoes, 

There's a trust on brass, 

There's a trust on glass, 

There's a whiskey trust on booze, 

There's a trust on ice, 

There's a trust on rice, 

There's a trust, they say, for making dice ; 

But I'll vote against the trusts, in 1900. 



180 McKINLEY IN THE WITNESS BOX. 



There's a trust on copper, there's one on tin, 

There's a trust, they say, on rope ; 

There's a trust on sugar, 

There's one on oil, 

There's a trust on smoking dope ; 

Now with all of these trusts 

And all of these busts, 

And old Mark Hanna a copping the dust, 

We will vote for Billy Bryan, in 1900. 



"WE ARE GOING TO DROP YOU NOW." 
(Good-bye, my lover, good-bye.) 

When you went to the country in ninety-six, 

Good-bye, "McKinley," good-bye, 
They claimed you were brave, had fought in the war, 

Good-bye, "McKinley," good-bye, 
But now we find you were Company Cook, 

Good-bye, "McKinley," good-bye, 
And messenger boy for General Crooke, 

Good-bye, "McKinley," good-bye. 

Good-bye, Crookedness, 

Good-bye, Corruption, 
Good-bye, Conspiracy, 

We are going to leave you now. 

You deserted the army at Cedar Creek, 

Good-bye, "Deserter," good-bye, 
With you're little brown mare you left very quick, 

Good-bye, "Deserter," good-bye, 
But Sheridan met you seven miles in the rear, 

Good-bye, "Deserter," good-bye, 
And now we have records that look very queer, 

Good-bye, "Deserter," Good-bye. 

Good-bye, "Soup Jack," 

Good-bye "Messenger Boy/' 

Good-bye, "Deserter," 

We are going to drop you now. 



HYPOCRISY AND INCONSISTENCY. 



You have robbed the farmer and laborer alike, 

Good-bye, "Church Member/' good-bye, 
And the Philippine death roll is kept out of sight. 

Good-bye, "Church Member," good-bye, 
You have given the banks the most of our dough, 

Good-bye, "Church Member," good-bye, 
And supported a harem for the Sultan of Joio, 

Good-bye "Church Member," good-bye. 

Good-bye, "Scandal," 

Good-bye, "Deception," 

Good-bye, "Hypocrisy," 

We're going to drop you now. 

When you went to war in ninety-eight, 

Good-bye Plain Duty, good-bye, 
You said you would set the Cubans free, 

Good-bye Plain Duty, good-bye, 
We will snow you under on election day, 

Good-bye Plain Duty, good-bye, 
You will wish vou were up in the Hudson Bay, 

Good-bye, Plain Duty, good-bye. 

Good-bye, "Rebates," 

Good-bye "Rake-Off s," 

Good-bye "Plunder," 

We are going to drop you now. 

We have clothed you and fed you for 24 years, 

Good-bye, "McKinley," good-bye, 
In your second term plot we cannot appear, 

Good-bye, "McKinley," good-bye, 
You had better go back to the Old Sparrow Inn, 

Good-bye, "McKinley," good-bye, 
And repent of your Sins before you pass in, 

Good-bye, "McKinley," good-bye. 

Good-bye, "Hanna," 
Good-bye, "Hanna," 
Good-bye, "Hanna," 
We are going to leave you now. 



182 McKINLEY IN THE WITNESS BOX. 



M'KINLEY AND HIS GANG. 
(Solomon Levi.) 
My name is Bill McKinley, 

I who advocated trusts 
Am the agent of Mark Hanna, 

Who represents the dust. 
We just finished a war with poor old Spain, 

Have another on our hands, 
And we won't buy goods of any man 

Who has not got a stand. 

We had trouble with Russell Alger 

Because he called us pups ; 
We had to fire John Sherman, 

'Cause he would not divy up. 
We won't keep men in office 

On any other plan 
Except the one adopted by 

The bosses of the land. 

We built a belt line round Havana — 

Cost us sixty thousand a mile. — 
If Bryan could only see our bills, 

"O, Lord," how he would smile; 
Otis cost us five million a week — 

He spent his money in heaps — 
But finally we had to fire him, 

Because he was getting cheap. 

And when a Senator comes along, 

A war contract to get, 
We pay him anything he wants — 

How the people do get bit. 
They say we can't live always, 

And we recognize the fact 
That when we 1 once get out of here, 

We never will get back. 



STEALING AND LAW BREAKING. 



They say there's thousands starving 

On our Porto Rican ranch, 
But the minute that they mention it 

Mark tells them they are cranks. 
We hold the mortgages on the Cubans, 

We have sold the Pinos' mines, 
While Rathbone has been living on 

The best of Spanish wines. 



184 Mckinley in the witness box. 



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A LANDSLIDE ! 



FOR BRYAN. 

ALL THE MONEY IN THE 
WORLD CANNOT DEFEAT 
PUBLIC SENTIMENT. 

LIBERTY LOVING PEOPLE 
DO NOT BELIEVE IN 

IMPERIALISM 

The South and West are solid 
for Bryan. It is a forgone con- 
clusion that Kentucky and Ne- 
braska are with him. These two 
states with Ohio, or Indiana, or 
Illinois, or New York, or Mich- 
igan, or Wisconsin, will give him 
a majority and he stands a good 
chance of carrying them all. 



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